Also in 1928 Quinterno's most important character, Patoruzú, first appeared. The '20s also saw the first characters created ( Andanzas y desventuras de Manolo Quaranta) and drawn ( Panitruco) by Dante Quinterno. In 1928, the first publication containing solely comics, the magazine El Tony, began its run of more than 70 years. The newspaper La Nación started publishing comics daily in 1920, and comics, both foreign and domestic, were a big reason for the popularity of the newspaper Crítica. The popularity of comics grew in the 1920s, and children's comics gained popularity. Billiken, a children's magazine started in 1919, already included some cartoons. Later comics, such as Aventuras de un matrimonio aun sin bautizar (later known as Aventuras de Don Tallarín y Doña), followed, and by 1917, Las diabluras de Tijereta was one of the lone strips that still put text at the bottom of each picture. In 1912, the first Argentine comic strip proper, with speech balloons and recurring characters, Las aventuras de Viruta y Chicharrón, by Manuel Redondo, began being published in Caras y Caretas. Also during this time, translations of comics from the United States, such as Cocoliche ( Happy Hooligan) by Frederick Burr Opper, showed up in Argentina.ĭuring the 1910s, the amount of comics made in Argentina grew by leaps and bounds.
Comics continued to be published exclusively in magazines.
Text still frequently appeared below each drawing with dialogue or explanation. In the 1900s, comics continued to be largely political satire and commentary, but strips about normal life, called cuentos vivos (lively tales) began to appear. Many used methods such as text indicating dialogue emanating from the speaker's mouth, or text below the drawings for dialogue and explanation. These cartoons, originally single panels, quickly evolved to multiple panel constructions with sequential action. The first cartoons to appear in Argentina were editorial cartoons in political satire magazines at the end of the 19th century. įront of Don Quijote magazine, circa 1890. Soon after, in 1970, the theorist Oscar Masotta synthesized its contributions in the development of their own models of action comics ( Oesterheld, Hugo Pratt), humor comics ( Divito, Quino) and folkloric comics ( Walter Ciocca) and the presence of other artists ( Hugo Pratt and Alberto Breccia). Statue of Mafalda, which was very popular in Latin America, Europe, Quebec, and in Asia in San Telmo, Buenos Aires.Īrgentine comics ( Spanish: historietas) are one of the most important comic traditions internationally, and the most important within Latin America, living its "Golden Age" between the 1940s and the 1960s.