Joaquín Xaudaró y Echau (August 17, 1872 – April 1, 1933) was a Spanish

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, and

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. His humorous depictions of the new technologies of his time –he published a volume of cartoons called ''The Perils of Flight'' (''Les péripéties de l'aviation'', ''Garnier Frères'',

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, 1911)- serve as an important link between the worlds of nineteenth-century illustration and twentieth-century cartooning.

Style of humor

Xaudaró's observations on contemporary culture and technology, as well as his gentle but insightful sense of humor, are apparent in such cartoons as "El telégrafo sin hilos," "Un retrato futurista," "El auto que pasa," "Despertar en

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," "El leopardo inglés en Spyon-Kop." In another work, Chamberlain seems to receive a "punch" from Kruger, which alludes to the atrocious "

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Career

Born in

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in the

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(at the time still a Spanish possession), Xaudaró's family, of

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ese origin, settled in

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in 1883. Xaudaró was educated in

and

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. He began his career drawing for ''Madrid Cómico'', ''La Saeta'', ''Gedeón'', and ''Barcelona Cómica'', a Barcelona-based humor magazine of the 1890s, occasionally utilizing the pseudonym J. O'Raduax ("Xaudaró" spelled backwards). Between 1907 and 1914, he also drew for the Paris-based periodical '' Le Rire''. Xaudaró subsequently worked for the

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-based periodicals ''Blanco y Negro'' and '' ABC''. His daily vignettes for ''ABC'' brought him fame, with each one containing a trademark little dog that soon became known as "el perrito de Xaudaró." His book illustrations include those commissioned by the Paris publisher Ollendorff (''Les conteurs joyeux''), and famously, those utilized for Juan Pérez Zúñiga's ''Los viajes morrocotudos'' ("The Fantastic Voyages"). Xaudaró's works of collected cartoons include ''Los Sports'', an album of sports-related vignettes published by Editorial Luis Tasso in the 1920s and ''Xaudaró: Tomos de Chistes'' (ca. 1932), a collection of his work that had been published in ''Blanco y Negro'' at the end of the nineteenth century. Xaudaró also did scenographical work for a production of ''

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''. At the end of his life, he founded, with Antonio Got and K-Hito, the ''Sociedad Española de Dibujos Animados'' (''SEDA'') in 1932.The Animated Cartoon Factory - History of Animation Timeline
/ref> He collaborated on an animated film with K-Hito. Xaudaró died in Madrid.

References

External links

"The Perils of Flight"
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