Ricardo Garijo (1953-2009) was born in Argentina. The second son of Spanish immigrant parents, he states his father survived a German concentration camp in WW2 (Mauthausen, Austria), while his mother was active in the French Resistance. On an obscure note, Ricardo notes that when he was a baby, his mother swaddled him in clothing made from pieces of a British parachute. He developed two passions as a boy, the American Space Program and the Second World War. For thirty years he collected photographs, books and magazine articles about the early space flights. Ricardo composed numerous drawings of the astronauts. In 1986 he was invited by NASA to exhibit some of his work in Argentina. He received a personal letter from another artist, the astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon.
In 1977, when 23 years old, Ricardo decided to expand his horizons and journeyed to Europe, hitchhiking from Spain to Sweden.
Mr. Garijo has worked on graphic media since 1980. As a science fiction fan he transitioned easily into graphic artwork for two newspaper comic strips. By 1982 he went to work for the Thomson House out of Dundee Scotland. Since then he has drawn thousands of pages of war cartoons and illustrations.
In the 1990's he began creating comics for other European periodicals. They were published in Spain, France and Italy. Six years ago senior Garijo began the publication of his own magazine entitled Gurbos in Extinction which was conceived as a tribute to the old Argentinean comic creators, some of the best in the world. His last published work from Gurbos, The Diary of Moreno Square, is a fantasy story about his own home town.
Ricardo Garijo was the artist who has painted each of the 52 images in the 2003 "Don't let it Happen Here" picture card set. His vivid colors provide the set quite with an enhanced visual appeal.
Monsterwax also has published in 2006 “The Art of H. G. Wells”, a 102 cards collection painted by Garijo, which includes the stories “War of the Worlds”, “The Time Machine” and “The Island of Dr. Moreau” (see NEWS).
Ricardo Garijo has been married since 1980 to a teacher called Adriana and they had three children, a boy and two girls.
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The story of a Spanish prisoner in the Mauthausen concentration camp in WWII.
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