Carlos Conti Alcántara (
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28 August 1916 – 15 September 1975) was a Spanish cartoonist. He created characters such as ''El loco Carioco'' (Carioco the crazy), a kind crazy man who lives in a lunatic asylum.
Biography
In the 1930s, he worked as an insurance agent, activity that was interrupted by the
Spanish Civil War
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, during which fought in the republican army. After the war, he collaborated as illustrator for several magazines, among them the then just appeared ''Hola''. In 1949, he began to publish in the ''
Pulgarcito'' magazine the series that would give him his major celebrity, ''El loco Carioco''. Other characters born in these years were ''Mi tío Magdaleno'' (1951), ''Apolino Tarúguez, hombre de negocios'' (Apolino Tarúguez, businessman, the misadventures of a tyrannical boss and his two employees) and ''La vida adormilada de Morfeo Pérez'' (the sleepy life of Morfeo Pérez) (1952). This last one was an unusual series in the Spanish comics of the time, since it put in scene the wild dreams of the mediocre protagonist, although the last panel of the page returned him inexorably back to his frustrating reality.
Besides his work as a comic strip creator, Conti specialized in the creation of graphical jokes for several magazines of the
Bruguera Publishing house. In 1957, along with
Peñarroya,
Escobar,
Cifré and
Giner, also sketchers of the publishing house, he created an independent company that published the magazine ''Tío Vivo''. Conti worked as artistic director. After the failure of ''Tío Vivo'', he continued collaborating withfor Bruguera, with characters like ''Don Alirón y la ciencia ficción'' (Don Alirón and the science-fiction) (1969) and ''Doctor No y su ayudante Sí'' (Doctor No and his assistant Yes) (1970). He is the author of the first scripts for
Superlópez, by
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He also collaborated in ''
ABC
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'', ''Blanco y Negro'', ''Leyendas infantiles'', ''El Coyote'', ''
TBO'' and many other magazines.
External links
Conti in Lambiek comiclopedia
1916 births
1975 deaths
Spanish comics artists
Spanish comics writers
David di Donatello winners
Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction)
20th-century Spanish artists
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