Born in Madrid, Spain, Vicente Alcazar began his career in the 1960s. He collaborated with fellow artist Carlos Pino under the dual pseudonymCARVIC, drawing war stories for the magazine Chío and for UKpublications and companies, including War Picture Library. The team additionally drew stories based on the U.S. television series ' for issues #74-105 of Polystyle Publications' 1969-1971 weekly British magazine TV21. At the recommendation of artist Gray Morrow, then editing then Archie Comics' imprint Red Circle Comics, American publishers began using Alcazar's work in the mid-1970s. Alcazar's first credited U.S. work appears in four publications cover-dated December 1973: penciling and inking the six-page stories "Suicide...Maybe" and "A Thousand Pounds of Clay" in the Archie/Red Circle comic bookChilling Adventures in Sorcery #4; penciling the two-page story "The Old School" in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Creepy #58; and inking penciler Rich Buckler's cover of Marvel Comics' black-and-white horror-comics magazine Vault of Evil #8. He had been recommended to Marvel by artist Neal Adams. Alcazar quickly became a regular freelancer for Archie, Marvel, Warren, and soon DC Comics and Charlton Comics, primarily drawing horror stories but also sword-and-sorcery ; war comics ; and science fiction. Writer Shaqui Le Vesconte said of Alcazar's ', "His style was very Gothic and experimental, using a variety of techniques that could be described as 'monochrome psychedelic', and matching the nightmarish feel of episodes like 'Missing Link', 'End Of Eternity' and 'Dragon's Domain'". After inking penciler Ernie Chan on DC's Jonah Hex #8, he became that Western series' regular penciler and inker beginning with #12, working with writer Michael Fleisher. He continued through #22 and additionally drew #27. Alcazar's comics work tapered off in the early 1980s. He wrote and drew the eight-page story "Paradise" in the comics-anthology magazine Heavy Metal vol. 5, #4, and penciled the Marvel superhero comic Moon Knight #21, his last known comics work until 1993, when he penciled an issue each of Continuity Comics' Megalith #2 and Earth 4 #3. In 2011, he began penciling, inking, and digital coloring the Vices Press series M3, which won the 2012 award for Best Comic Book at the Burbank International Film Festival. He did some work for Archie Comics' Afterlife with Archie in 2014, and the following year began drawing for the D. C. Thomson & Co. series Commando. As of mid-2007, he is married to documentary filmmaker Amanda Lucena.
