Alberto Breccia

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

Life

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

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

In the 1950s he became an honorary member of the “Venice Group”, which included artists of Italian origin such as Hugo Pratt , Ido Pavone , Horacio Lalia , Faustinelli and Ongaro .

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

From 1960 he drew for European publishing houses via an artist agency based in Buenos Aires, including westerns and war stories for the British company Fleetway. However, this collaboration did not last long. Breccia's son Enrique also drew a few war stories for Fleetway in the late 1960s, including "Spy 13".

Breccia and Oesterheld also worked together on one of the most important comic strips in history, Mort Cinder , in 1962 . The model for the face of the immortal Cinder was Breccia's 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 No. 714 of Misterix magazine and ran until 1964.

In 1968 Breccia worked with his son on a comic biography about the life of Che Guevara , here too the text was contributed by Oesterheld. This work is seen as the reason for Oesterheld's disappearance.

In 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 various techniques. The result was far from conventional and not aimed at commercial success. Breccia refused to change his style, which added to the style of the text and was very different from the original by Solano López. Breccia also created a mural in the Buenos Aires subway called "El Eternauta".

In the 1970s, Breccia created innovative black and white and color graphics with series such as Un tal Daneri and Chi ha Paura delle Fiabe? , written by Carlos Trillo . In the latter, a satire based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, breccia played with textures, mixed collages, acrylic and watercolors. This technique is also used by Anglo-Saxon authors such as Bill Sienkiewicz and Dave McKean in the 1980s .

Other works by Breccia are “Los mitos de Cthulhu”, “Buscavidas” (with text by Carlos Trillo), a graphic story of Chile and “Perramus”, which, inspired by the work of the poet Juan Sasturain , is a pamphlet against the Argentine dictatorship .

In 1993 Breccia died in Buenos Aires.

Works (excerpt)

  • Mariquita Terremoto
  • Kid Río Grande
  • El Vengador
  • Jean de Martinica
  • 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 (1969 edition), 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 , based on a text by HP Lovecraft
  • Un tal Daneri (1974–1978), written by Trillo
  • El corazón delator (1975), after Edgar Allan Poe .
  • Nadie (1977), written by Trillo.
  • Buscavidas (1981), written by Trillo
  • Perramus (1983), written by Juan Sasturain
  • Drácula, Dacul, Vlad ?, Bah ... (1984)
  • Informe sobre ciegos (1991), based on a text by Ernesto Sábato
  • El Dorado, el delirio de Lope de Aguirre (1992), written by Carlos Albiac
  • Martín Fierro , by José Hernández
  • Platos voladores al ataque !! , written by Oesterheld

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lambiek Comiclopedia: Alberto Breccia . Retrieved October 14, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Breccia, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION argentinian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1993
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina