El Mercenario

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Issue #1 of El Mercenario (1980).  Art by Vicente Segrelles.
Issue #1 of El Mercenario (1980). Art by Vicente Segrelles.

El Mercenario (English: The Mercenary) is a fantasy graphic novel by the Catalan-Spanish artist Vicente Segrelles, published starting from 1980. The latest volume was published in 2003.

It tells the story of a mysterious and anonymous mercenary, who lives a series of adventures in a world populated by magicians, dragons, amazons, monsters and other themes of heroic fantasy, with a great attention paid on the depiction of landscapes.

An unusual feature for a comics, every panel is painted in oil, a rather time consuming technique.

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