Monday, June 20, 2011

Carlos Trillo, Argentine comic book writer (Cybersix) died he was , 68.

Carlos Trillo was an Argentine comic book writer died he was , 68..

(May 1, 1943 – May 8, 2011)

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires, Trillo began a prolific career as writer already at the age of 20, writing his first story for Patoruzú magazine.[2] Trillo created, together with Horacio Altuna, the strip El Loco Chávez, which appeared every day at the back of the newspaper Clarín from July 26, 1975 to November 10, 1987. After that, the strip was replaced by El Negro Blanco, which he wrote for the artist Ernesto García Seijas until September 1993. He married writer Ema Wolf and had two children.
He participated on the creation of several comics including Cybersix in 1992, with Carlos Meglia, and the Clara de noche and Cicca Dum Dum series with Jordi Bernet. He has also collaborated with Alberto Breccia and Alejandro Dolina.
In 1999, his work La grande arnaque won the Prize for Scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. He died in London on May 8, 2011, while on holiday with his wife.[1]

Bibliography

  • El Loco Chávez
  • Las puertitas del Sr. López
  • Merdichesky
  • El último recreo
  • Tragaperras
  • Charlie Moon
  • Clara de noche
  • Light & Bold
  • Ivan Piire
  • Cicca Dum Dum
  • Video Noire
  • Boy Vampire
  • Borderline
  • Chicanos
Cover for Iguana, a collaboration with Mandrafina
  • Dragger
  • The Big Hoax
  • The Iguana
  • Historias mudas
  • El contorsionista
Others

Awards

  • 1978: Yellow Kid e Gran Guinigi Award, Lucca, Italy, for Best International Author[3]
  • 1984: Premio al mejor guionista del año en el Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona
  • 1996: Yellow Kid Award, Lucca, Italy, for Best International Author
  • 1999: Angoulême Festival, Prize for Scenario, for La grande anarque (The Big Hoax)

 

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