Edmond Ripoll
[file:Edmond (Edmond Fernández Ripoll), dibuixant (2010).tif|thumb|Edmond Fernández Ripoll in 2010]
Edmundo Fernández Ripoll, better known as Edmond, is a Catalan comic book artist and illustrator, born in 1938 march in Barcelona. His most famous creation was Jan Europa.
Career
The young Edmond works in a hardware store, selling T-shirt's by mail and as an assistant in an advertising agency till 1959 when is hired by Editorial Bruguera to adapt television characters as Rintintín, Bonanza, Daniel Boone or Bronco. In the seventies also publishes romance stories in girls magazines like Celia, As de Corazones, Sissi, Sissi-gráfico o Sissi-juvenil and adaptations of books like Tom Sawyer and La capitana del Yucatán for Joyas Literarias Juveniles collection.Lately he works internationally for the British market, French bande dessiné, holandés, Swedish market and even in Zaire. In Spain, creates with the script of Víctor Mora and with Andreu Martín Fantasía S. A. and Los Titanes.
In 1976 creates Eva Star for Can Can and in April 1979, Jan Europa, his more popular series, to Mortadelo.
Similar to Jan Europa is Doctor Impossible in 1984. His last creation was Fede y sus colegas, dramón urbano por entregas, scripted by Jaume Ribera for the TBO magazine of Ediciones B.