Carlos Conti
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Carlos Conti Alcántara is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
August 28, 1916—September 15, 1975) was a Spanish comic artist and writer. He created characters such as El loco Carioco (Carioco, the crazy, a kind crazy man who lives in a lunatic asylum)
Biography
In the 1930s1930s
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he worked as a insurance agent, activity that was interrupted by the Civil War
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...
, during which fought in the republican army. After the fight, he collaborated as illustrator for several magazines (among them the then just appeared Hola) In 1949 he began to publish in the Pulgarcito
Pulgarcito
Pulgarcito was a weekly illustrated magazine of Spain that was published by Editorial Bruguera from June 1921 to 1986....
magazine the series that would give him his major celebrity, El loco Carioco. Other characters who born in these years were: Mi tío Magdaleno (1951), Apolino Tarúguez, hombre de negocios (Apolino Tarúguez, businessman, the misadventures of a tiranic boss and his two employess) and La vida adormilada de Morfeo Pérez (the dozed life of Morfeo Pérez) (1952). This last one was an unusual series in the Spanish comics of the time, since it put in scene the wild dreamings of the mediocre protagonist, although the last panel of the page gaves him inexorably back to his frustrating reality.
Besides his work as a comic strip creator, Conti specialized in the creation of graphical jokes for several magazines of the Bruguera
Editorial Bruguera
Bruguera was a Spanish publishing house based in Barcelona, which was devoted mainly to the production of popular literature and comics. It was created in 1910 as El Gato Negro, changed its name in 1940 and came to possess, as indicated by Jesús Cuadrado:...
Publishing house. In 1957, along with Peñarroya, Escobar
José Escobar Saliente
José Escobar Saliente was a Spanish comic book writer and artist, born in Barcelona. He signed as Escobar, and is most famous for his creation Zipi y Zape, as well as the character Carpanta...
, Cifré and Giner, also sketchers of the publishing house, create an independent company that publishes the magazine Tío Vivo, in that Conti worked of artistic director. After the failure of Tío Vivo, he continued collaborating for Bruguera, with characters like Don Alirón y la ciencia ficción (Don Alirón and the science-fiction) (1969) and Doctor No y su ayudante Sí (Doctor No and his assistant Yes) (1970). He is the author of the first scripts for Superlópez
Superlópez
Superlópez is a Spanish comic book character created by Jan. Created in 1973, Superlópez is a parody of Superman. Born Jo-Con-Él on the planet Chitón much like Superman's home planet of Krypton, he leaves his planet when he enters a spaceship and presses a button, an accident that sends...
, by Jan
Jan (comics)
Jan is the pseudonym of Juan López Fernández , Spanish comic book writer and artist, most famous for his creation Superlópez.-Biography:He was born in the town of Toral de los Vados, in the province of León...
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He also collaborated in ABC, Blanco y Negro, Leyendas infantiles, El Coyote, TBO
TBO
TBO was a long-running Spanish comic book magazine, published in Barcelona between 1917 and 1998.TBO is pronounced in Spanish almost the same as "te veo", "I see you". It was so popular that tebeo is now a generic word for "comic book" in Spain....
and many other magazines.