Alberto Breccia

Alberto Breccia ( born April 15, 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay, † November 10, 1993 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Uruguayan comic book artist and author.

Life

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberto Breccia moved with his parents to Buenos Aires, Argentina, when he was three years old. After finishing school Breccia worked in a meat packing factory. In 1938 he got a job with the magazine " El Resero ", where he wrote articles and drew the covers.

In 1939 he started the publishing house Manuel Láinez to work. He drew comic strips such as Mariquita Terremoto, Kid Río Grande and Vengador for various magazines of the publishing house.

In the 1950s, he became an honorary member of the "Group of Venice", belonged to the Italian -born artists like Hugo Pratt, Ido Pavone, Horacio Lalia, Faustinelli and Ongaro.

Other honorary members were Solano Lopez, Carlo Cruz and Arturo Perez del Castillo. With Hugo Pratt Breccia founded the " Pan American Art School " in Buenos Aires. 1957 Breccia moved to the publishing house " Editorial Frontera ," where he created numerous under the direction of Héctor Germán Oesterheld " Ernie Pike 'stories. Appeared in 1958 his series " Sherlock Time" in the comic magazine " Hora Cero Extra" with lyrics by Oesterheld.

From 1960 he was responsible for European publishing houses via a resident of Buenos Aires artist agency, including Western and war stories for the British Fleetway House. However, this cooperation did not last long. Breccias son Enrique recorded in the late 1960s also a few war stories for Fleetway, including " Spy 13".

Breccia and Oesterheld worked in 1962 at one of the most important comic strips in history, "Mort Cinder " together. Model for the face of the immortal Cinder was breccias assistant Horacio Lalia. His companion, the antique dealer Ezra Winston, is the alter ego of Breccia. The comic strip first appeared on July 26, 1962 in issue number 714 of the magazine Misterix and ran until 1964.

1968 Breccia worked with his son at a comic book biography about the life of Che Guevara, also here the text of Oesterheld was contributed. This work is considered as a reason for the disappearance of Oesterheld.

1969 Oesterheld wrote a new version of " El Eternauta " for the Argentine magazine Gente. Breccia drew the story in an experimental style for which he used different techniques. The result was anything but conventional, and was not on commercial success. Breccia refused to change his style, which contributed to the style of the text and differed greatly from the original by Solano López. Breccia also created a mural in the subway of Buenos Aires with the title " El Eternauta ".

In the 1970s, Breccia created innovative graphics in black / white and color with series like Un tal Daneri and Chi ha Paura delle Fiabe? , Written by Carlos Trillo. In the latter, a satire, which was based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, Breccia played with textures, mixte collage, acrylic and water colors. This technique will be applied in the 1980s by Anglo-Saxon authors such as Bill Sienkiewicz and Dave McKean.

Further works by Breccia are " Los mitos de Cthulhu ," " Buscavidas " (with text by Carlos Trillo ), a graphical history of Chile and " Perramus " which, inspired by the work of the poet Juan Sasturain, a pamphlet against the Argentine dictatorship represents.

1993 dies Breccia in Buenos Aires.

Works (excerpt)

  • Mariquita Terremoto
  • Kid Río Grande
  • Vengador
  • Jean de Martinique
  • Vito Nervio (1947-1959 and 1974), with text by Leonardo Wadel
  • Pancho López ( 1956)
  • Ernie Pike, written by Oesterheld
  • Sherlock Time (1958-1959), written by Oesterheld
  • Mort Cinder (1962-1964), written by Oesterheld
  • Richard Long ( 1966), written by Oesterheld
  • La vida del Che (1968), written by Oesterheld ( co-production with Enrique Breccia )
  • El Eternauta ( edition of 1969), written by Oesterheld
  • Evita, vida y obra de Eva Perón (1970), written by Oesterheld
  • Squadra Zenith (1972-1974)
  • Los mitos de Cthulhu (1973 ), written by Norberto Buscaglia, after a text by HP Lovecraft
  • Un tal Daneri (1974-1978), written by Trillo
  • El corazón delator (1975) by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • Nadie (1977 ), written by Trillo.
  • Buscavidas (1981 ), written by Trillo
  • Perramus (1983 ), written by Juan Sasturain
  • Dracula, Dacul, Vlad? Bah ... (1984 )
  • Informe sobre ciegos (1991 ), text by Ernesto Sabato
  • El Dorado, El delirio de Lope de Aguirre (1992 ), written by Carlos Albiac
  • Martín Fierro by José Hernández
  • Plato voladores al ataque! , Written by Oesterheld
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