Jorge Alderete
| Jorge Alderete | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 Santa Cruz, Argentina (Patagonia) |
| Nationality | Argentinian |
| Alma mater | National University of La Plata |
| Spouse(s) | Clarissa Moura |
| Website | jorgealderete |
Jorge Alderete (born 1971), also known as Dr. Alderete, is an Argentine illustrator, animator, editor and owner of several businesses, best known for his comic book and kitsch aesthetic in his work. Most of Alderete’s career has evolved in Mexico, where he came in 1998 and with the exception of a year in Spain, has since stayed, living and worked from his apartment in Colonia Roma in Mexico City. Most of his work is related to Mexico City’s music scene, especially rock and surf bands, having created about eighty CD covers and various other promotional items including the billboards for the 2011 Vive Latino music festival. Alderete’s work has appeared in publications, including anthologies of graphic arts in Mexico, the United States and Europe and has also done animation work for MTV, Nickelodeon and Mexican television.
Jorge Alderete was born in the town of Santa Cruz, Argentina (Patagonia) in 1971. He is the eldest of three children to a middle-class family and named after his father. His mother was a teacher and his father a state employee. Although born in Santa Cruz, he grew up in a small city called Neuquén, in the province of the same name.
Aldrete received his first comic book/graphic novel before he was able to read and took to them immediately, reading them through his childhood in the 1970s and 1980s. This comic books were not of the superhero kind. In Argentina, they are closer to graphic novels, mostly written for older audiences, based on classic stories and others. This kind of graphic has more prestige in Argentina, with many locally produced and imported from other parts of the Americas and Europe. Popular authors included Alberto Breccia, Hugo Pratt and Corto Maltés. He not only read these books, they prompted a love for drawing, coping what he say, the only one of the three siblings to do this. His parents supported him, even sending Jorge to classes, but he found them boring and learning on his own. His interest in graphic novel creation was enough to be frustrated in his teens to be a 14-hour bus ride from Buenos Aires, where all the publishers were. Instead, Aldrete and some friends in Neuquén started their own fanzine called Alquitrán.
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