War Picture Library 2043

"To the Last Man" by Víctor de la Fuente (Fleetway, UK).

SI Art Production Shop

From its establishment, Selecciones Ilustradas' main business model was that of a US comics' studio or shop.11The most famous of these is the Eisner-Iger studio, which produced material on demand for Fiction House, Fox, Quality, Harvey,...   This involved producing specific material for specific companies on commission, particularly in France and England.

Trelawny of the Guards

by Víctor de la Fuente ran in Lion (Fleetway, UK) 1966-67. It was among his last UK work before beginning on Sunday. Some later episodes include art by SI's Adolfo Usero and José Ortiz.

In the UK, companies such as DC Thompson and Fleetway sold in region of 300,000 copies of each issue, with Fleetway's Eagle 1 (1950) selling close to one million copies. The companies turned to foreign studios and freelance artists to provide the volume of strips they required.22www.dandare.info....  

For the SI artists, this work was typically anonymous and involved illustrating scripts provided by the international publishers. The artists rarely saw the published version of their work and had no right to have their artwork returned, but their employment was more regular and the pay better than could be achieved with Spanish publishers. The agency reportedly received 25 pesetas per page in France and 125 in Great Britain.33es.wikipedia.org....  

D-Day Drop

by Víctor de la Fuente and Ken Gentry, Commando 511, Nov 1970 (DC Thompson, UK).

The artists of Selecciones Ilustradas churned out thousands of pages of war, western and romance comics for UK publishers throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and each of the Fuente brothers extensively drew anonymous works for the UK market.

From the late 1950s, Ramon de la Fuente worked for 12 years on comics for Fleetway (England) and DC Thompson (Scotland), including War Picture Library (IPC/Fleetway, UK).44There is a range of information across the internet on his war comics work, but it seems to mainly be...   Chiqui's work in the UK also appears to have been primarily war comics.

UK work by Víctor de la Fuente

Published version unknown (from deskartesmil.blogspot.com).

Between 1962 and 1971, Víctor de la Fuente drew in excess of 5000 pages for UK publications such as Battle Picture Library (IPC/Fleetway, England), War Picture Library (IPC/Fleetway, England) and Commando (DC Thompson, Scotland). He worked on "Blackbow the Cheyenne" for Eagle (1963) and "Trelawney of the Guards"/"Trelawney's Mob" for Lion (1966-1967). 55According to www.dandare.info: Battle Picture Library (Fleetway, England) 78, 91, 119, 132, 170, 211, 253, 273; Valiant Picture Library...  

However, when Sunday was created in 1968, Víctor de la Fuente was looking for more creative options and Toutain was experimenting with a new approach.