Eduardo Barreto 1954-2011

Long-time New Teen Titans artist Luis Eduardo Barreto died on 15 December 2011 at the ridiculously young age of 57, apparently of Meningitis related illness.

The Uruguay born artist had worked in comics since the 1970’s, breaking into the American market in 1979 working briefly for Marvel as an inker on Battlestar Galactica, Marvel Team-Up and Iron Man, though he really made his name in US comics after going to work for DC in the 1980s on series’ including World’s Finest, Atari Force, DC Comics Presents, Superman, Action Comics and, most notably a lengthy run on New Teen Titans (from #13 to #50, aside from a couple of issues) and the 1989 one shot ‘Lex Luthor: the Unauthorized Biography’. He later worked on titles including Martian Manhunter-American Secrets, Batman, The Shadow Strikes and the Elseworlds tale Superman: Speeding Bullets. He also worked for other companies including Dark Horse (Aliens/Predator), Claypool (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark), Oni Press (The Long Haul, amongst others), IDW (Cobb: Off the Leash) and Marvel (Marvel Knights) as well as the newspaper comic strip ‘Judge Parker’, which he drew from 2006 until forced to give up by ill health in 2010. He took over as artist of the Sunday edition of The Phantom in 2011. His last published comics work before his death was a Superman: Retroactive story drawn in the style of the 1970’s, in summer 2011.

Barreto leaves behind him a son, Diego, who has followed in his father’s footsteps as a strip artist, and a daughter, Andrea, who is a colorist.