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Alberto Breccia (Uruguay, 1919) fue el más grande artista de la historieta argentina del siglo XX. Fue un innovador incansable e inclasificable, y el autor más premiado, admirado y copiado del país. Ganador de varios premios, en el que se destaca el Amnesty International por su serie Perramus (con guión de Juan Sasturain), fue además el co-creador de clásicos de la historieta como Mort Cinder (junto a Oesterheld), la excepcional historia de la vida del Che Guevara (junto a su hijo Enrique y Oesterheld), y la grotesca saga de Buscavidas (esta vez, junto a Carlos Trillo). Inmenso adaptador de obras literarias (de donde se destacan: Informe sobre ciegos, de Sábato y Los Mithos de Cthulhu, de Lovecraf) y gran ilustrador y pintor. Este enorme artista terminó su carrera cumpliendo su más anhelado sueño: adaptar los relatos de su gran admirado: Jorge Luis Borges. Murió en la Argentina (en donde vivía desde los tres años) en 1993.
Su modalidad de trabajo, su particular visión para enfocar y desarrollar un relato, su exquisito talento a la hora de adaptar complejas obras literarias y su incansable búsqueda de nuevos estilos y formas; han sido siempre uno de los grandes interrogantes en la vida de este autor y que sólo conocían unos pocos elegidos. Este libro presenta, entonces, su genial e inusual forma de trabajar y descubre parte del oculto archivo de este maestro que sale a la luz hoy por primera vez.
Es ésta, sin dudas, una oportunidad única.
Un libro que reúne en 96 páginas los bocetos inéditos de los mejores comics del maestro: Lovecraft, El Viajero de Gris, Lope de Aguirre, Drácula, Buscavidas, El Corazón Delator, Mr. Valdemar, William Wilson, Donde Suben y Bajan las Mareas, Perramus, Informe sobre Ciegos y una galería con los bocetos de las ilustraciones sobre el Martín Fierro, los story-boards del film El Viaje y una selección de dibujos varios. Además, como bonus, un comic humorístico inédito con guión de Oesterheld.
96 páginas más portadas laminadas, solapas dobles con foto del autor e ilustración color, textos del autor hablando sobre su propia obra, en castellano e inglés prólogo de Oscar Steimberg.
Su modalidad de trabajo, su particular visión para enfocar y desarrollar un relato, su exquisito talento a la hora de adaptar complejas obras literarias y su incansable búsqueda de nuevos estilos y formas; han sido siempre uno de los grandes interrogantes en la vida de este autor y que sólo conocían unos pocos elegidos. Este libro presenta, entonces, su genial e inusual forma de trabajar y descubre parte del oculto archivo de este maestro que sale a la luz hoy por primera vez.
Es ésta, sin dudas, una oportunidad única.
Un libro que reúne en 96 páginas los bocetos inéditos de los mejores comics del maestro: Lovecraft, El Viajero de Gris, Lope de Aguirre, Drácula, Buscavidas, El Corazón Delator, Mr. Valdemar, William Wilson, Donde Suben y Bajan las Mareas, Perramus, Informe sobre Ciegos y una galería con los bocetos de las ilustraciones sobre el Martín Fierro, los story-boards del film El Viaje y una selección de dibujos varios. Además, como bonus, un comic humorístico inédito con guión de Oesterheld.
96 páginas más portadas laminadas, solapas dobles con foto del autor e ilustración color, textos del autor hablando sobre su propia obra, en castellano e inglés prólogo de Oscar Steimberg.
96 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2002
About the author
Alberto Breccia
105 books82 followersBorn 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.
Breccia and Oesterheld collaborated to produce one of the most important comic strips in history, Mort Cinder, in 1962. The face of the immortal Cinder is modeled after Breccia's assistant, Horacio Lalia, and the appearance of his companion, the antique dealer Ezra Winston, is actually Breccia's own. Cinder and Winston's strip began on July 26, 1962, in issue Nº 714 of Misterix magazine, and ran until 1964 .
In 1968 Breccia was joined by his son, Enrique, in a project to draw the comic biography of Che, the life of Che Guevara, again with a script provided by Oesterheld. This comic book is considered the chief cause behind Oesterheld's disappearance.
In 1969 Oesterheld rewrote the script of El Eternauta, for the Argentinian magazine Gente. Breccia drew the story with a decidedly experimental style, resorting to diverse techniques. The resulting work was anything but conventional and moving away from the commercial. Breccia refused to modify its style, which added to the tone of the script, and was much different from Francisco Solano López original.
During the seventies, Breccia makes major graphic innovations in black and white and color with series like Un tal Daneri and Chi ha paura delle fiabe?, written by Carlos Trillo. On the last one, a satire based on Brothers Grimm's tales, he plays with texture, mixing collage, acrylic and watercolor.
Other stories include: Cthulhu Mythos, Buscavidas (text by Carlos Trillo), a Historia grafica del Chile and Perramus, inspired by the work of the poet Juan Sasturain a pamphlet against the dictatorship in Argentina. Breccia died in Buenos Aires in 1993.
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.
Breccia and Oesterheld collaborated to produce one of the most important comic strips in history, Mort Cinder, in 1962. The face of the immortal Cinder is modeled after Breccia's assistant, Horacio Lalia, and the appearance of his companion, the antique dealer Ezra Winston, is actually Breccia's own. Cinder and Winston's strip began on July 26, 1962, in issue Nº 714 of Misterix magazine, and ran until 1964 .
In 1968 Breccia was joined by his son, Enrique, in a project to draw the comic biography of Che, the life of Che Guevara, again with a script provided by Oesterheld. This comic book is considered the chief cause behind Oesterheld's disappearance.
In 1969 Oesterheld rewrote the script of El Eternauta, for the Argentinian magazine Gente. Breccia drew the story with a decidedly experimental style, resorting to diverse techniques. The resulting work was anything but conventional and moving away from the commercial. Breccia refused to modify its style, which added to the tone of the script, and was much different from Francisco Solano López original.
During the seventies, Breccia makes major graphic innovations in black and white and color with series like Un tal Daneri and Chi ha paura delle fiabe?, written by Carlos Trillo. On the last one, a satire based on Brothers Grimm's tales, he plays with texture, mixing collage, acrylic and watercolor.
Other stories include: Cthulhu Mythos, Buscavidas (text by Carlos Trillo), a Historia grafica del Chile and Perramus, inspired by the work of the poet Juan Sasturain a pamphlet against the dictatorship in Argentina. Breccia died in Buenos Aires in 1993.
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