Themo Lobos
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| Born | Themístocles Nazario Lobos Aguirre December 3, 1928 San Miguel, Chile |
| Died | July 24, 2012 Valparaíso, Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
| Pseudonym(s) | Themo Lobos |
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Themístocles Nazario Lobos Aguirre (December 3, 1928 – July 24, 2012), better known as Themo Lobos, was a Chilean cartoonist. He created the characters Máximo Chambónez, Ferrilo, Nick Obre, and Alaraco, with his most famous work being Mampato, a character first developed, briefly, by Eduardo Armstrong and Óscar Vega; Lobos then wrote and illustrated his adventures from 1968 to 1978. He was also the publisher of the comic-book Cucalón, which collected all his previous characters and stories.
Themístocles Lobos was born in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile in 1928. He began drawing cartoons at age 7, at first copying other drawings, but at 12 he realized that he needed "to be original and begin to work on his own things". Themo Lobos' first inspirations and influences came from the children's magazine El Peneca, of which he was a great fan - the Quintín el Aventurero ("Quentin the Adventurer") strip in particular. His first art studies were at the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts, but he quit because the school was not what he had expected. He later studied at the Chilean School of Applied Arts, where in his spare time he created his first original characters, Ferrilo the Robot and Homero the Pilot. His first professional work was published in the newspaper La Nación in 1949, with his characters serving to promote advertising.
The following year, he got to work in El Peneca. He was later signed on to work as one of the assistants to Guido Vallejos on the famous Chilean comic-book Barrabases, where he created the characters Cicleto, Cucufato and Ñeclito. In the mid-1950s, he was signed on to work on the humor publication El Pingüino ("The Penguin"). For this magazine he introduced his first truly popular creation: Alaraco, a comic strip about an over-concerned and overreacting man (modeled on Lobos' own personality). The same decade saw his work appear in the magazines Pobre Diablo, Flash, Humor de Hoy and Humanoide.
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