José María Massaroli (born September 30, 1952) is an Argentine

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, born in

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Career

He studied arts at the Instituto Ida with Angel Borisoff, Narciso Bayón and Pablo Pereyra. In 1973, he published his first comic book stories in the

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's magazines:

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and Larguirucho. He learned the finer points of the profession from Lito Fernández. In 1975, he commenced drawing realistic stories for the

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house: ''Haakon'' and ''Tres X La Ley'' (by H. G. Oesterheld), and ''Dennis Martin'' (by Robin Wood). Then he worked for other publishing houses such as: Record Publishing, Universo Publishing (Italy) and D.C. Thomson (UK). He switched to humour in 1981 and cooperated with Operación Ja Ja and

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. In 1982, he created Orquídeo Maidana for the

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magazine. In 1983, he created a series of biographies for the daily newspaper

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(adapted for the comics medium) of

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and

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. In 1985, he joined the Jaime Díaz Studios as a

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man and participated in several TV series such as

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, Timon & Pumbaa,

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, and

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, while continuing to create terror stories for the German comic book series Gespenster Geschichten ( Bastei-Verlag editions). He also published in magazines like ''Sex Humor'', ''Fierro'', ''Satiricón'' and ''Zona 84''. Since 2006, he has been writing the scripts for the Los Grutynos comic strip, published in

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. In the early 1990s, Massaroli began drawing stories for

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television and the American ''

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. He has additionally created stories with

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and illustrations for the Look and Find books. Under the guidance of

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, he was introduced to the Danish publisher of

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;

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. Massaroli has been drawing Duck stories for Egmont since 1997.

External links

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José Massaroli, Historietista (Blog in Spanish)

Orquídeo Maidana
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