Carlos Pacheco is dead: goodbye to the designer of Avengers, Batman, Superman and Spiderman

The Spanish cartoonist Carlos Pacheco, world legend thanks to his illustrations of X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Thor, Spiderman, Batman, The Avengers and Superman, died from the complications of a particularly aggressive form of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), which he had only been diagnosed with last September. He would have turned 61 on November 14th.

Pacheco died, as family sources confirmed today to the Spanish newspaper “El Pais”, at the Hospital de La Línea de la Concepción in Cadiz. The degenerative disease had been announced by him on his social networks when he was diagnosed just two months ago.

Pacheco was one of the most well-known cartoonists of comics and has worked on the major characters of the Marvel and DC Comics stables. He had been noticed thanks to some works in Spain for Planeta DeAgostini and for some Marvel books. Pacheco in 1994 began drawing for America on Marvel’s “Bishop” and DC’s “The Flash”. From there he began an ascent that led him to draw all the major superheroes of comics. His tables and his covers are spectacular: his line is clean and able to give great physicality to his characters, often depicted in dynamic scenes and with impossible perspectives.