Cartoons Opus 2 - Hardcover

Mordillo, Guillermo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091469406 ISBN 13: 9780091469405

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1982

Synopsis

The son of Spanish immigrants, Guillermo Mordillo was born in Buenos Aires in 1932. Very early he developed a passion for drawing and football. At 18 already he illustrated his first books, and after receiving his illustrator's diploma from the Superior School of Journalism, he went on to study the technique of film animation. At 20 he opened his own studio. In 1955 he left Buenos Aires for Lima, where he worked as a freelance artist for a major international advertising agency, McCann Erickson. In 1960 he settled in New York, where he was employed by Paramount Pictures animated cartoon studios. But the American mentality proved incompatible with Mordillo's nature and sensitivity; he left the United States after two years. In 1963 he set off for Europe, and after a brief stopover in Spain, went on to Paris. Mordillo was 31. "Without speaking a word of French and with only 150 dollars in his pocket, he was lucky to find a job in just two days. He hadn't intended to stay in Paris for more than a week. His sojourn was to last 17 years. It was in Paris that he really "became" Mordillo and tasted success. His first cartoons were published in 1966, in the French magazine Paris Match. Then German magazine STERN discovered him. His very round, extremely expressive style, his feeling for the tacit joke in which all the stakes are in the comedy of the situation and the mimics of his characters, in no time made him one of the most highly esteemed comic graphic artists

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0091469406
• ISBN 13: 9780091469405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96