Pura Campos

The female Spanish comics artist Pura "Purita" Campos is specialized in girl comics, mostly made for foreign countries. She was noted for her fashion drawings by British editor Philip Douglas, who urged her to pursue a career in comics. Throughout Europe, she is best known for illustrating the adventures of the characters 'Esther' (known in other countries as 'Patty' or 'Peggy'), 'Tina' (the title comic for the magazine of the same name, scripts by Andries Brandt and Patty Klein) and the model 'Gina' (scripts by Ramón Ortega). In Spain, Campos has published in such magazines and romance collections as Dalia (1959), Romántica (1961), As de Corazones (1961), Sissi (1961), Blanca (1961), Lily (1962), Celia (1963), Can Can (1961), Jana (1983), Pecosa (1986) and TBO (1988).