Carlos Conti
Carlos Conti Alcántara (Barcelona, Spain 28 August 1916 – 15 September 1975) was a Spanish cartoonist. He created characters such as El loco Carioco (Carioco, the crazy, a kind crazy man who lives in a lunatic asylum)
Biography
In the 1930s he worked as an insurance agent, activity that was interrupted by the Civil War, 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 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 employees) 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 Publishing house. In 1957, along with Peñarroya, Escobar, 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, by Jan.
He also collaborated in ABC, Blanco y Negro, Leyendas infantiles, El Coyote, TBO and many other magazines.
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