Robin Wood (comics)

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Nippur de Lagash, as drawn by Lucho Olivera

Robin Wood (born 1944 in New Australia, Paraguay) is a comic book writer.

Of Irish origins, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various different jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver, salesman, wood chopper, journalist and factory worker in those two countries as well as in Brazil.

Wood settled in Buenos Aires while working as a correspondent for Paraguayan newspaper El Territorio, and did a series of unqualified jobs before he started writting scripts for popular comic book publishing company Columba. His first published work was Aquí la retirada, drawn by his friend Lucho Olivera, in the magazine D'artagnan, and would soon become one of the most important comic writers not only of the Argentine comic but that of Latin America.

Among Wood's most important works are Nippur de Lagash (1967, Olivera), Dennis Martin (1967), Dago (1980, Salinas), Savarese (1978, Mandrafina), Mark, Big Norman, Wolf, Gilgamesh el inmortal (Olivera), Morgan, Dax , Los Amigos, El Cosaco, Aquí la Legión, Mojado and Helena, and the humour comics of Pepe Shánchez and Mi novia y yo, both drawn by Carlos Vogt.

In the 1980s Wood moved to Europe, were he continued with his writting success, especially in Italy where he is given the Yellow Kid award. Wood settled in Denmark with his Danish wife Anne-Mette and their children.