Davila/Avengers. Original drawing illustrating an Avengers fight scene against a robot. A fine, light work in graphite. Very rare. TBE+. 30 X 42 cm Sergio Davila is a young Spanish artist in his forties, working mainly for American comic book publishers. A student of Jaime Calderón at Barcelona's Femart school, he quickly became a talented artist, as confirmed by his numerous collaborations (available in US, Spanish and French versions) for several publishing houses: Red Sonja for Dynamite Comics, Injustice-Gods among Us, Superman Rebirth, Super Sons, Wonder Woman Rebirth, Legenderry for DC Comics, Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 or Legenderry for Dynamite. More recently, he worked on the Conan The Slayer series for Dark Horse Comics.

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