Alberto Breccia
| Breccia Alberto | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 15, 1919 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Died | November 10, 1993 (aged 74) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Area(s) | Writer, Artist |
| Pseudonym(s) | El Viejo (The Old Man) |
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Notable works
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Mort Cinder La vida del Che |
Alberto Breccia (April 15, 1919 – November 10, 1993) was an Uruguay-born Argentine cartoonist. His son is the famous comic cartoonist Enrique Breccia.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Breccia moved with his parents to Buenos Aires, Argentina when he was three years old. After leaving school, Breccia worked in a tripe packing plant and in 1938 he got a job for the magazine El Resero, where he wrote articles and drew the covers.
He began to work professionally in 1939, when he joined the publishing house Manuel Láinez. He worked on magazines such as Tit-Bits, Rataplán and El Gorrión where he created comic strips such as Mariquita Terremoto, Kid Río Grande, El Vengador (based on a popular novel), and other adaptations.
During the 1950s he became an "honorary" member of the "Group of Venice" that consisted of expatriate Italian artists such as Hugo Pratt, Ido Pavone, Horacio Lalia, Faustinelli and Ongaro. Other honorary members were Francisco Solano López, Carlo Cruz and Arturo Perez del Castillo. With Hugo Pratt, he started the Pan-American School of Art in Buenos Aires. In 1957 he joined publisher Editorial Frontera, under the direction of Héctor Germán Oesterheld, where he created several Ernie Pike stories. In 1958 Breccia's series Sherlock Time ran in the comic magazine Hora Cero Extra, with scripts by Oesterheld.
In 1960 he began to work for European publishers via a Buenos Aires based art agency: for British publishing house Fleetway he drew a few westerns and war stories. This period did not last long. His son Enrique Breccia would also draw a few war stories for Fleetway in the late 1960s, such as Spy 13.
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