Birth Name: | José Antonio Fernández Fernández |
Birth Date: | 16 May 1949 |
Birth Place: | Mansilla de las Mulas, León |
Death Date: | 14 September, 2020 (aged 71) |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Area: | comics artist and writer |
Notable Works: | Puti-Club |
José Antonio Fernández Fernández (May 16, 1949 – September 14, 2020[1]), better known as Fer, was a Spanish comic artist.
He was the main promoter of the Gat Perich International Humor Prize, an award that he received in 2005.[2]
He was born in Mansilla de las Mulas, León. His family moved to Mollet del Vallès from León when he was four years old. He graduated in History and became a teacher.
He started drawing in the magazines Mata Ratos, En Patufet and Oriflama as well as the newspaper La Prensa.
He directed the comics magazine El Papus.[3] In 1982 he created for El Jueves the series Puti-Club, set in a brothel and later the series Historias fermosas about a group of clumsy medieval soldiers.