Jordi Penalva
Spanish cover artist
Name:
Jordi Penalva
Aliases:
Birth date:
Unknown
Home town:
Barcelona, Catalonia
Country:
Spain
Born in 1927 as Jordi Bosch Penalver in Barcelona Spain.
Began work on the Fleetway's Cowboy Comic Library in the late 50's and went on to work on Battle Picture Library and War Picture Library in the 60's. In 1968 he moved from Fleetway to their main rivals D.C. Thomson, where he worked on Commando contributing 100's of covers. During the 1980's he worked for U.S. publisher, Warren, were he did covers for Eerie, Vampirella and The Rook. Jordi was awarded Best Cover of the Year 1978 for his Eerie #96.