Horacio Altuna apologises for a joke

Horacio Altuna

Altuna's strip from the weekly series "Es lo que hay (Reality)". Clarín of 8 June 2023. Tremendous fuss, as they would say over there, was made over this strip by the Argentinian Horacio Altuna (1941) in the newspaper Clarín. Altuna, although he has lived in Sitges (Spain) since 1982, continues to work in

Tongues of fire

Lenguas de fuego. Intento de magnicidio a Cristina Kirchner

Every son of a neighbour already knows this because the images have gone around the world. A guy named Fernando Sabag Montiel tried to assassinate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the Argentinean vice-president. Sabag aimed at Kirchner's face and pulled the trigger twice on his semi-automatic pistol, an old Bersa model Lusber 84, calibre

Biography, Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón (Quino)

Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón (Quino)

These biographies are written using only references taken from interviews and information published by the authors themselves on their official pages or channels. The links consulted for their elaboration are added at the bottom. If you find any errors, you can report them here. Next month it will be two years since Quino's disappearance, so I've

Gaturro, the most beaten character of the Paseo de la Historieta

Gaturro, el personaje más vapuleado del Paseo de la Historieta

The figure of Gaturro on the "Paseo de la Historieta" in Argentina has been vandalised over the years, disfigured beyond recognition. Gaturro, has always been considered a "bootleg" of Garfield, that is, an unauthorised or "pirated" edition as well as a bad copy of the famous cat from Jim Davis. The creator of

Quino in the park

Quino en el parque

You blink and he's gone for a month, you sneeze and twelve vanish. A year ago Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, known worldwide as Quino, passed away. If his work already resides in the memory of several generations of people all over the world, now it will also do so in a physical form