Alberto Breccia (April 15, 1919 – November 10, 1993) was an
Uruguay
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an-born
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artist and cartoonist. A gifted penciller and inker, Breccia is one of the most celebrated and famous comics/
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creators in the world, and specially prominent in
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and Europe. His son
Enrique Breccia
Enrique Breccia (born 1945) is an Argentine comic book artist and writer.
Biography
Enrique Breccia, the son of noted comic artist Alberto Breccia, drew his first work in 1968, when together with his father illustrated '' Vida del Che'' ("Life ...
and daughter
Patricia Breccia are also comic book artists.
Renowned comic book author
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considers Breccia as one of his personal mentors, even declaring that (regarding modernity in comics): "it all started with Breccia".
Breccia, again recovered
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Biography
Born in Montevideo
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, Uruguay, Breccia moved with his parents to Buenos Aires
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, 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 strip
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s 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
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" that consisted of expatriate Italian
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artists such as Hugo Pratt
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, Ido Pavone
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, Horacio Lalia The name Horacio is found sporadically throughout all Latinamerica.
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*Horacio Quiroga, an Uruguayan author and writer.
*Horacio Carochi, an Italian Jesuit priest and grammarian
*Horacio Pagani (auto executive) (born 1955), Argen ...
, Faustinelli
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and Ongaro. Other honorary members were Francisco Solano López
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and Arturo Perez del Castillo Arturo is a Spanish and Italian variant of the name Arthur.
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. With Hugo Pratt, he started the Pan-American School of Art in Buenos Aires. In 1957 he joined publisher Editorial Frontera
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, under the direction of Héctor Germán Oesterheld
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, where he created several ''Ernie Pike
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'' stories. In 1958 Breccia's series ''Sherlock Time
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The retiree Julio Luna buys a mansion in San Isidro, whose previous owners disappeared in strange circumstances. It turns out that the tower ...
'' ran in the comic magazine ''Hora Cero Extra'', with scripts by Oesterheld.
In 1960 he began to work for European publishers via a Buenos Aires-based art agency: for British
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publishing house Fleetway
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he drew a few westerns
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and war stories. This period did not last long. His son Enrique Breccia
Enrique Breccia (born 1945) is an Argentine comic book artist and writer.
Biography
Enrique Breccia, the son of noted comic artist Alberto Breccia, drew his first work in 1968, when together with his father illustrated '' Vida del Che'' ("Life ...
would also draw a few war stories for Fleetway in the late 1960s, such as ''Spy 13''.
Breccia and Oesterheld collaborated to produce one of the most important comic strips in history, ''Mort Cinder
''Mort Cinder'' is an Argentine comic book horror-science fiction series featuring an eponymous character, created in 1962 by writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld and artist Alberto Breccia. It is widely considered as one of the best comic strips eve ...
'', in 1962. The face of the immortal Cinder is modeled after Breccia's assistant, Horacio Lalia, and the appearance of his companion, the antique
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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
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, in a project to draw the comic biography of ''Che'', the life of Che Guevara
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, 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
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'', 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
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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
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. On the last one, a satire
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based on Brothers Grimm
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's tales, he plays with texture, mixing collage
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, acrylic
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and watercolor
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. This technique will be used later in the eighties by Anglo-Saxons authors such as Bill Sienkiewicz
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and Dave McKean
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.
Other stories include: ''Cthulhu Mythos
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'', ''Buscavidas'' (text by Carlos Trillo), a '' Historia grafica del Chile'' and '' Perramus'', inspired by the work of the poet Juan Sasturain
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a pamphlet against the dictatorship
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in Argentina.
Breccia died in Buenos Aires in 1993.
Partial bibliography
*''Mariquita Terremoto''.
*''Kid Río Grande''.
*''El Vengador''.
*''Jean de Martinica''.
*''Vito Nervio'' (1947–1959 and 1974), with stories by Leonardo Wadel
*''Mision Thyuraine'' (1961), with stories by Leonardo Wadel
*''Pancho López'' (1956)
*''Ernie Pike
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'', written by Oesterheld
*''Sherlock Time'' (1958–1959), written by Oesterheld
*''Mort Cinder
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'' (1962–1964), written by Oesterheld
*''Richard Long'' (1966), written by Oesterheld
*''Vida del Che
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'' (1969 edition), written by Oesterheld
*'' Evita, vida y obra de Eva Perón'' (1970), written by Oesterheld
*''Squadra Zenith'' (1972–1974)
*''Los Mitos de Cthulhu'' (1973), written by Norberto Buscaglia, from text by H. P. Lovecraft
*''Un Tal Daneri'' (1974–1978), written by Trillo
*''El Corazón Delator'' (1975), from a text by Edgar Allan Poe
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*'' El Aire ''(1976), written by Guillermo Saccomanno
*''Nadie'' (1977), written by Trillo.
*''Buscavidas'' (1981), written by Trillo
*''Perramus'' (1983), written by Juan Sasturain
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*''Drácula, Dracul, Vlad?, Bah...'' (1984)
*''Informe Sobre Ciegos'' (1991), from text by Ernesto Sábato
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*''El Dorado, El Delirio de Lope de Aguirre'' (1992), written by Carlos Albiac
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*''Martín Fierro
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'', by José Hernández
*''Platos Voladores Al Ataque!!'', written by Oesterheld
References
External links
Muestras de Breccia y Barnes se llevan a cabo en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
on Ouroboros world (Spanish)
on Lambiek Comiclopedia
on Dan Dare
Alberto Breccia work
on Tebeosfera
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Uruguayan comics artists
Argentine comics artists
1919 births
1993 deaths
Uruguayan people of Italian descent
Uruguayan emigrants to Argentina