Horacio Altuna

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Horacio Altuna (born November 24, 1941) is an Argentine comics artist.

[edit] Biography

Born in Córdoba, Altuna made his debut in the comics world in 1965 for publisher Editorial Columbia. His first characters were Titan, a Superman-like superhero, Kabul de Bengala (1971, written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Armando Fernández among others), Big Norman, Hilario Corvalán and others.

From 1973 to 1976 Altuna collaborated with Fleetway, Ediciones Record, Charlton Comics, Playboy and the French Les Humanoïdes Associés.

In July 1975, in the daily newspaper El Clarín, Altuna with writer Carlos Trillo created the journalist character Hugo Chávez, best known as El loco Chavez, one of the Argentine most popular comics strips. Also with Trillo Altuna has drawn the series Charlie Moon and Las puertitas del señor López.

In 1982 Altuna moved to Sitges, Spain, drawing stories for the Editorial Toutain and short erotic stories for Playboy. As of February 2005, he has published the comic strip Familia Tipo in the newspaper El Periódico.

First page of the Altuna's erotic comic strip O Expresso do Prazer (The Pleasure Express) published in Brazilian Playboy December 1988

[edit] Bibliography

• El loco Chávez (1975, with Carlos Trillo)
• Las puertitas del Sr. López, with Carlos Trillo.
• Merdichesky, with Carlos Trillo.
• El último recreo, with Carlos Trillo.
• Tragaperras, with Carlos Trillo.
• Ficcionario (1983)
• Chances (1985)
• Imaginario (1987-88)
• Time/Out (1986).
• Various cartoons for Playboy (since 1988)
• Hot L.A. (1992, 2000)
• El Nene Montanaro (1994, 2002)

[edit] Awards

• 1986: Yellow Kid and Gran Guinigi prize for Best Foreign Author ^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Horacio Altuna biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia

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