FERNANDO LLERA is a comic book artist, editorial cartoonist, illustrator, actor and writer from Mexico City. He created his first comic strip, "MOBSTER NICK" in 1970. Six comic book issues of MOBSTER NICK were published by NOVARO under the Domingos Alegres banner in 1973-74.
From 1974 to 1992, he wrote and drew the Spanish language versions of "THE PINK PANTHER" and "BEEP BEEP, THE ROAD RUNNER" comic books for Western Publishing Company's Latin American licensees, Editorial Novaro and later Editorial VID.
He performed as a comedian at several local dinner theaters. In 1985, he wrote and appeared in two comedy TV series. He's also a licensed radio announcer and from 1995 to 2007, he co-hosted a daily two hour radio talk show at a local station.
He has illustrated several humor books and his cartoons have been published in several magazines. He published some editorial cartoons for Mexico's Reforma newspaper from 2004 until 2006.
He has also appeared as an actor in Mexican films: HASTA MORIR ('Til Death - 1994) and BORRAR DE LA MEMORIA (2010). He was interviewed on-screen for a feature length documentary about the NOVARO era: NOVARO, THE MEXICAN COLOSSUS (2016).
Since 2006, his editorial cartoons have been appearing regularly in Excelsior, a daily newspaper.
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Western Publishing+ Era Creators (1970-2010) Pete Alvarado ⍟ Phil de Lara ⍟ Carl Fallberg ⍟ Fernando Llera ⍟ Vic Lockman ⍟ Michael Maltese ⍟ Larry Mayer ⍟ Joe Messerli ⍟ Warren Tufts ⍟ Ricardo Violini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
American Mythology Era Creators (2016-2019) Mark Arnold ⍟ Kris Carter ⍟ S.A. Check ⍟ Dan Conner ⍟ Keith Davidson ⍟ Jazz Dela Cuesta ⍟ Derek Fridolfs ⍟ John Gallagher ⍟ S.L. Gallant ⍟ Bill Galvan ⍟ Jacob Greenawalt ⍟ Natalie Jane ⍟ Jeremy Kahn ⍟ Batton Lash ⍟ Adrian Ropp ⍟ Jeff Scherer ⍟ Bob Smith ⍟ Mike Wolfer |