Coll

Coll was a Spanish comics artist, who began a versatile career in comics in the 1940s. As a member of a middle-class family, he had to begin working at age 12 due to the Civil War. He however pursued an education afterwards, in which he further developed his interest in art. He began his professional career in Chispa magazine in 1948, and was soon featured in Mundo Infantil, PBT, KKO, Pocholo, Nicolas, Timoteo and La Risa.

In the late 1940s he also began a productive cooperation with the revived TBO magazine, after its disappearance during the Civil War and World War II. From 1964 to 1981 he didn't create new comics, until he began drawing again for Primeras Noticias. On Friday, 15 July 1984, José Coll y Coll was found dead in his bathtub with an electrical cable around his neck.