"Patty's World", from Pink, 1974
Purificación (Purita) Campos Sánchez (b. Barcelona, 1937) is a Spanish artist who has been published throughout Europe. Starting as a fashion artist, she was encouraged by a British editor, Philip Douglas, to try comics. She has drawn extensively for girls' and romance comics in Spain, the UK and the Netherlands from the late 1950s to the late 80s. She has also worked for Belgium, Germany and Scandinavia, and is best known for a character variously known as Esther, Peggy, Patty and Penny Lukas in these countries. She currently concentrates on illustration, painting, engraving and lithography. In 2009 she was awarded the Medallo de Oro al Mérito en el Trabajo Ártistico (Gold Medal for Merit in Artistic Work) by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
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- Purita Campos on Lambiek
- David Roach, Purita Campos en UK, Deskartes Mil, 26 January 2012
- Purita Campos at Ediciones Glenat
- Purita Campos on Spanish Wikipedia