José Grau

José Grau Hernández was born in Valencia in 1914. He vas eighteen years old when he started his career working for Guerri publisher. He was a pioneer in narrative techniques in the field of Spanish comics with series like 'El as de exploradores' (Guerri, 1934) and 'Los tambores de Fu Manchu' (Valenciana, 1940). Other works were: 'Rostro de cuero' (1945), 'King, el pequeño policía' (1946) and 'El Capitán Sol' (1948).

In addition, he participated in magazines like Jaimito, S.O.S., Trampolín and the Argentinian Patoruzito. For the latter, José Grau created the series 'Curro Bravo' in 1953. One year later he and writer F. Amorós created 'Juan León'. Both Curro Bravo and Juan León were Spanish bandits during the period of French domination.

José Grau was a specialist in comics featuring girls. His comics of this kind included the series 'Las hermanas Dionis' and 'Sally', which he created for supplements of newspapers, as well as the stories he did for magazines Marilo and Sissy. José Grau worked for Bruguera since 1962. For this publisher he did series like 'El teniente negro' (1962) and 'El Capitán Trueno' (1968). In 1970 he entered the British Bardom Press doing comics about war, girls, adventures, the series 'Cathy' (1981), and many others.