Julio Emilio Suárez Sedraschi, also known as Peloduro (September 16, 1909, in Salto – August 15, 1965, in

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) was a Uruguayan caricature artist, journalist, and comic book artist.

Biography

Julio E. Suárez was one of the pioneers of

comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

s in Uruguay. Born in Salto, Uruguay, he traveled to Montevideo to study architecture in 1927, but he quickly abandoned his studies. In that time he began career with newspapers and his relationship with the short-lived Uruguayan newspaper, ''El Nacional'', where he published parliamentary notes. He published his first drawings (Wing y Roncadera) in "El Plata", before he moved to the magazine "Mundo Uruguayo" in 1934 where he published two series of drawings, “Ríase o no” (laugh or not) and “Contra-refranes” (contradictions). He worked with ''Mundo'' until 1950. Along with his work as an illustrator, he wrote scripts starring his character "Peloduro" for the radio broadcast station ''CX 24'' in Montevideo and became an illustration teacher in the school of applied arts. He also created the character “Marieta Caramba” voiced by actress Jebele Sand on ''CX 30 Radio Nacional''. Throughout his career he used various pseudonyms among them “pelo”, “Marcos Tuáin” “Pepe Repepe” and “El Mono”. However, his most widely used names were “JESS” and “peloduro”. He died in 1965.

Homages

Since 1996 el Museo de Humor y la Historieta, (Comic and Humor Museum), in the city of Minas (Comic and Humor Museum), Uruguay which was founded in 1992, carries his name, as well as a street in

. The museum also issues a "Peloduro" award. In 1967 after his death, two compilations of his works were published “Diccionario del Disparate” and “Comentarios internacionales de “El Pulga”. Since 2011 Uruguay celebrates Día de la Historieta on September 16 in honor of Suárez's birthday.

References

References from Spanish article not cited in English article

*http://auchistorietas.blogspot.com/2011/07/dia-nacional-del-historietista.html
Multiverseros.com 'Por segundo año consecutivo, el 16 de setiembre será el DÍA DE LA HISTORIETA URUGUAYA'
*http://www.ivoox.com/nota-con-nicolas-peruzzo-auch-sobre-el-dia-audios-mp3_rf_1434114_1.html
«Autores del Uruguay»
*Junta Departamental de Montevideo (24/09/09

*http://www.ivoox.com/nota-con-nicolas-peruzzo-auch-sobre-el-dia-audios-mp3_rf_1434114_1.html *Castellanos, Alfredo C. (2000)
«Nomenclatura de Montevideo»
*Comedia Nacional
«"Peloduro, padre del humorismo uruguayo".»
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