El Negro Blanco
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Clarín |
| Schedule | daily |
| Format | comic strip |
| Genre | Erotic, Comedy |
| Publication date | 1987-1994 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Carlos Trillo |
| Penciller(s) | Ernesto García Seijas |
El Negro Blanco is an Argentine comic strip that was published by the Clarín newspaper from 1987 to 1994. It was written by Carlos Trillo, and drawn by Ernesto García Seijas. The words "Negro" and "Blanco" mean black and white in Spanish, but the title is not intended to set a black-and-white dichotomy, Blanco is simply the family name of the main character and "Negro" is a common Argentinian nickname.
Same as with the former comic strip El Loco Chávez that this one replaced, the main character is a fictional journalist, who works in a fictional depiction of the Clarín newspaper that published it. Most story arcs were about both some weird news report assigned to him, or trivial ones that develop an unexpected twist, and a romantic affair. The Negro Blanco develops relations with many different women, but Chispa Valdéz and Flopi Bach are recurring ones.
El Negro Blanco was published by the Clarín newspaper from 1987 to 1994. It replaced El Loco Chávez at the page devoted to comic strips, being replaced at its end by El Nene Montanaro. The newspaper added extra stories at the Sunday magazine on some occasions. Ivrea republished the whole run of the comic strip in 10 comic books in prestige format in 2006, and El Globo Editor published a specific story arc in 1993.
The character Carlos Marcucci is freely based on a real man with that name, friend of the writer Carlos Trillo. According to Marcucci, Ernesto García Seijas accurately portrayed him as an ugly man, who is nevertheless successful with women (however, the comic strip took that to parodic levels).
To design the character of Flopi Bach, Seijas modeled her after Araceli González, then an unknown model hired for that work. The character was very successful, and both González and the character appeared at a 1991 issue of the Argentine edition of the Playboy magazine. It was the first time that Playboy published erotic images of a fictional character instead of photos of real people. Seijas took the character for spin-off series, after the end of the comic strip.
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