"Buffalo Bill", The Comet, 1955
Francisco Hidalgo Bartau was born in Cabra del Santo Cristo, Jaén, Andalucia, Spain, on 17 May 1929. He published his first comic, La Secta de Tong Khan in 1943 at the age of 14. He drew a variety of Spanish comics in his teens and early twenties, including the detective series Doctor Niebla, and worked as an animator on the animated film Garbancito de la Mancha, directed by Arturo Moreno, in 1945. He studied at the schools of fine arts in Madrid and Barcelona.
He moved to France in 1954, where he worked for publications including Spirou, Pierrot, Tintin, Pilote and Coeurs Vaillants, for which he drew "Bob Mallard" and "Teddy Ted" under the pseudonym Yves Roy, while continuing to contribute to the Spanish comic Bisonte Gráfico. In 1955, working through the agency A. L. I., he drew Buffalo Bill for The Comet.
He turned to photography in the 1960s, working for a variety of agencies and publishing books of photographs of Paris, New York, London, Venice and Peru. He died in Paris on 25 July 2009.
References[]
- Steve Holland, Francisco Hidalgo (1929-2009), Bear Alley, 28 July 2009
- Francisco Hidalgo on the Spanish Wikipedia