Trini Tinturé ( Trinidad Tinturé Navarro; 6 August 1935 – 17 January 2024) was a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has a prominent place in the history of 20th-century comics.
She worked mainly for the foreign market.
She specialized in comics aimed at girls and teenagers, among which (Emma is charming) (1981), her most representative work in Spain, created in collaboration with the scriptwriter
Andreu Martín
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Martín was one of the few Spanish novelists who specialized in crime and detective works who made a living off of them. Patricia Hart, autho ...
, stands out. She was honored with the Grand Prize at the 2023
Barcelona International Comic Fair.
Early life and education
Trini Tinturé was born in
Lleida
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,
6 August 1935,
at the start of the
Spanish Civil War
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.
[Tinturé, Trini (06/1983). Comic Story-24 in "Bruguelandia", no. 22, pp. 20-23] Her family of six lived on the income of her father, who had a carpentry workshop.
From a very early age, she showed a fondness for drawing. Though her training was limited to being self-taught,
[Matías Guiu, Armando (06/1983). Comic Story-24 en "Bruguelandia", no. 24, pp. 22-23] in 1955, Tinturé was awarded the first medal for artistic drawing by the Círculo de Bellas Artes in her hometown.
Career
In 1957, she went by train to
Barcelona
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, where a great-aunt of hers lived.
There, Tinturé had no problems finding work as a cartoonist in small publishing houses (Gráficas Soriano; Indedi), contributing to publications for children and adolescents. She also tried working in
advertising
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agencies.
In 1960, she joined the publishing house
Editorial Bruguera
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where she drew for the magazines ''Celia'' and'' Sissi''.
From there, she made the leap to the foreign market through the agency . Her comics, such as ''Biggi'', ''Jurtz'', ''Jamp Shop'', ''Tina'', and ''
Twinkle
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'', were published in magazines in Germany, Austria, and the United Kingdom.
Her comics series for foreign markets include ''
Jinty'',
''Oh, Tinker!'', and ''Curly''.
From 1981, with
scriptwriters Andreu Martín and
Francisco Pérez Navarro, Tinturé developed her most popular series, ''Emma es encantadora'', for the magazine ''Lily''. In 2015, the 33rd
Barcelona International Comic Fair dedicated an exhibition under the title "Autoras del cómic femenino en el franquismo 1940/1970" in which Tinturé's works were included.
In 2023, the 41st Barcelona International Comic Fair awarded the Grand Prize to Tinturé.
Death
Trini Tinturé died on 17 January 2024, at the age of 88.
Mor Trini Tinturé, pionera en la il·lustració de còmics per a nens
Style
Armando Matías Guiu has described the tenderness of Tinturé's drawings.
Awards and distinctions
* 2023, Grand Prize, Cómic Barcelona
* 2015, Haxtur Award, for the "author we love", for her entire career
* 1955, First Medal, Círculo de Bellas Artes, for artistic drawing
Selected works
* 1985, ''Violeta'', series, ''Lily Extra'', Bruguera
* 19??, ''Un sombrero para un hada'', strip ''Lamp Shot''
References
External links
*
Trinidad Tinturé Navarro's profile
at '' Tebeosfera''
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1935 births
2024 deaths
Spanish comics artists
Spanish female comics artists
Spanish illustrators
Spanish women illustrators
People from Lleida
Women artists from Catalonia