Esteban Maroto

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Esteban Maroto

Born	1942 Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker

Esteban Maroto (born 1942) is a Spanish comic book artist.

[edit] Career

Satana from Vampire Tales#3, drawn by Esteban Maroto.

Born in Madrid, he began his career in the 1960s with series like Cinco por infinito, published in English by Continuity Comics as "Zero Patrol" (heavily retouched by editor Neal Adams). In the 1970s he started to be known in his own country when Trinca magazine published Alma de Dragón. He designed the "metal bikini" for the character Red Sonja, in Savage Tales #3, Comixscene #5, and in the first issue of The Savage Sword of Conan and pencilled her first solo story, which was inked by Neal Adams and Ernie Chan. He also redesigned Satana for Marvel Comics and drew her second solo story in Vampire Tales issue 3. In issue 4 of the same series he drew an outstading adaptation of the short story The Drifting Snow by August Derleth.

He also contributed black and white illustrations for the Roger Zelazny book "Changeling" and the Larry Niven book "The Magic Goes Away".

Red Sonja drawn by Esteban Maroto.

He later worked on the series Amethyst, Zatanna, The Atlantis Chronicles, The Savage Sword of Conan, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Vlad the Impaler and X-Men Unlimited

[edit] Warren Publishing

Maroto joined Warren Publishing in November 1971 when artists from the Spanish agency Selleciones Illustrada started appearing in the their three horror magazines, Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella. Maroto's first story, "Wolfhunt" appeared in Vampirella #14. Maroto quickly became one of the most well known and critically acclaimed Spanish artists at Warren. He would eventually draw 101 stories for them, more than any other artist except Jose Ortiz. Maroto won the Warren Award for best artist/writer in 1972, and his story "A Scream in the Forest" won best art in a story in 1973. Maroto remained with Warren until its folding in 1983.

Two series of Maroto's were reprinted in Eerie and Vampirella. Manly, which was renamed Dax the Warrior was reprinted in issues 39-41, 43-50 and 52 of Eerie. All of issue 59 was dedicated to Dax, which reprinted again the majority of these stories. His series Tomb of the Gods was reprinted in Vampirella issues 17 through 22.