November 16 1943 - April 3 2020
Humanoids has issued a press release stating that the Argentinian artist Juan Gimenez has died at age 76 from coronavirus. He was hospitalized in Argentina on March 22 and never recovered.
Gimenez was one of the most skilled artists to be featured in Heavy Metal magazine during the 1980s. 'Timescooter' (October 1985), 'Primabel' (Fall 1986), and 'Garbage' (Spring, 1987) all were memorable, and counterbalanced the magazine's discouraging turn towards printing English translations of inane 'Atom Style' comics from the likes of Daniel Torres and Joost Swarte, or the crudely scrawled black-and-white comics of Peter Kuper.
He later gained fame for his illustrations for the comic book series The Metabarons and for his own sci-fi series, The Fourth Power.
Below is 'A Matter of Time', from the October 1984 issue of Heavy Metal magazine.
Sad news... but no excuse for disparaging the work of Torres and Swarte.
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