Conti's work is an example of the absurd and intelligent humor that was a genius and figure. Conti was one of the great Tom Thumb. His humor fine, intelligent and absurd meant a breath of fresh air on Cartoon postwar Spain.
Through his most celebrated character, the Fool Carioco, was telling us that reality can be more real than the very unreality. From one world to another only half a formulation more or less rational.
Tom Thumb (1921), with the beginning of the Civil War in 1936 meant stagnation, like the cartoon in general, its evolution until the end of the war.
Once the Civil War is gradually permeated by the beginning of what will be a golden age in terms of acceptance, which lasted until the middle of the 60's, television began to break heavily in the English homes and changed many of the behaviors of the population. To do this, since 1947, hired a team of young and experienced cartoonists and enjoy the services of a key man in the publication: Rafael González Tom Thumb is a breath of fresh air. It is a hymn to freedom and a smile in front of the misfortunes and hardships in difficult times after the war. The most admired, most popular and beloved readers.
Sometimes the merit of being first does not have the time to take stock and measure the progress of history, or is it the case that cutting-edge works, with the passing of the years, come to be ignored or scorned as had never existed. Might be the case, it is difficult to know for science true, of The crazy Carioco, the character created by Conti for the magazine. All comics in the Franco are the same!seems that today more than ever, comics readers are urged by commendable ntrar clues to help understand, or at least endure, a reality sometimes closer to the monstrous beings modern cartoon the stylized strokes of old magazines.
Conti
These lines are intended as a tribute to one of the authors most significant in our post-war genre, and so far has been in a ghetto in which we wish, with these lines, it exits. But mostly the reason for these pages is to thank Conti every moment of pleasure he has given us reading his comic
Conti's name is attached to the effervescent pass in the years forty / fifty, Thumb magazine. The work of this author has to lead to a kind of delirious cartoon, a way of telling full of sparks when you seem to enjoy making us wallow in its characters, humorous situations, their sharp alternatives. F ue the golden age of humor graph because they fought to circumvent censorship.
Earning bread
Despite many distances, but thematic, stylistic if between Escobar, Peñarroya, Encrypt and Conti, there is a sort of "link" that unites them and that in some way, sister. Drawn in part thanks to the expressive needs that exist in any author but above all things, drew for a living. And although none of them had pretensions of importance, they got it.
Seen in perspective, the first cartoonist cartoons suffer from certain uncertainty, as if Conti had not yet decided on what kind of things and how I wanted to draw. No less true is that the particular ability to build fast Conti and intelligent cartoons was already present in his first comic, a feature not very evident in the work of some of his contemporaries.
Drawing simple objects Conti is so, but that's part of the charm of his stories, which are the most irreverent and horny English cartoon. One author, perhaps lacking the glamor of some of his contemporaries, but of wit, bad temper and openness.
Intelligent Humor
smile is what makes the most intelligent humor and laughter is usually produced by the most absurd humor. The laughter lasts a second, a smile can last up to a minute and if the joke is very intelligent, as it will be extending the understanding and people smile more and enjoy the humor of Conti is a wildly clever humor. O challah cartoon history were to keep the memory of the work of all professionals, technicians and collaborators who gave life to the Editorial Bruguera and today remain unknown.
Unfortunately, in recent years seems have developed a common trend worldwide, and is almost d and global children's magazines to comics have been replaced by video game magazines or television clubs.
The Golden Age, Conti
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El Loco Carioco
Once the little Civil War little is permeated by the beginning of what will be a golden age in terms of acceptance, for the comic to be extended to mid-60's, due to the advent of television in English homes.
Tom Thumb, from 1947, which is headed by the man who was a key man in publications Bruguera, Rafael Gonzalez, hired a team of young cartoonists, who converted to magazine, despite Franco's censorship prevailing at the time, in social portrait of the era.
Carpanta; The Tribulete Reporter, Don Pío, El Loco Carioco, Gilda's sisters, Zipi and Zape Casildo and Doña Urraca, would soon become the most popular and admired figures of the magazine.
If the press and popular magazines reflect the official history of the country, Tom Thumb offers the flip side, informally, that of moonlighting, queues, overcrowded trams, the black market, the new rich, hunger, etc. , and paradoxically it was a children's magazine. At a time when censorship prevented any discussion of certain topics, Tom, through his characters, takes to do a critique of social strata, their stories reflect reality.
Today, unfortunately, the comic is the only means of communication ma sas has ceased to be: it has become a minority, displaced priorities for children and adolescents on television, console or anything else. Thumb
part of our readings for children and adolescents, publication, which I believe has not been given due importance. So from these lines, I urge prepared feathers than mine, get a thorough and serious treatment to the great work to be done and not done until today. Those were the days when the comics were known as cartoons and comics no.
The 50 and 60
Years 50 and 60 were the gold from magazines or comics for children and youth. Of at that time, or a few before, are now historical, "Tom Thumb", "DDT" and "Man Alive", all published in Barcelona. They all find a group of cartoonists Tom Thumb are: encryption, Peñarroya, Escobar, Conti, etc.. From which we might call the "old guard" style Conti cartoons are perhaps more critical, more personal and unreal. With a deliberately simple graphic that makes use of, and is endowed with great expressiveness, makes reading into something timeless that will remain in effect beyond the period in which it was conceived.
In a country where, as noted Carlos Giménez is fucked in a hurry, hungry, angry, c on contempt, hatred, and even unwillingly fucked. And in most times not even fucking, reading Conti was not only the path to prolonged laughter, but also to recall some models to be rewarding in this world now unfavorably. Much confusion and mess, fun, wit, joke, laughter and much good work.
In those years, Conti, emerged as a storyteller mature and sober, perfect knowledge of the springs through expression in the working and aware of its limitations and virtues.
chronological analysis of his career, leaving the door open to an interesting aesthetic and thematic analysis.
Conti is in its own right, a classic. If we go back to 40/50 and remember that period of postwar confusionist where some authors are beginning to loosen the hair, we see that stands out with its own light "El loco Carioco, a character who has never gone away in the minds of fans. And the years have passed and still offering Conti, every time I reread, juicy and meaty pages that lead to your eyes ... Whether or not you've heard about him in your life. El Loco Carioco proposes a delusional world where everything seems to be to be excessive. In the world of Mad Carioco everything tends to excess, delirium and of course laughter.
Carioco The madman was a character that had numerous followers. For some us, including myself included, Conti cartoons are very closely related to the awakening of my passion for comics. Through its apparent simple pages, the world emerges clearly dislocated from the war, but most of it survives in its pages a world of hope.
Conti was one of the best contributors to the magazine Thumb. Excellent storyteller, humorist thread completely gone, his work is a collection of nonsense and attacks on common sense. El Loco Carioco exemplifies the characteristics of the author: an argument close to surrealism, a delusional character caricature their hard everyday, with dialogue sometimes seems absurd.
Although postwar cartoon was marked by the guardianship of the religious and partisan manipulation, lack of freedom of expression that characterized the Franco dictatorship, Conti is one of those authors did not close their eyes to the reality around him and with all the stealth you will, reflected in the comic and discomfort gaps existing at the time. Portrayed the society around them, a society grotesque and cartoonish. In those years the English comic, got a quality roof can not be relegated to oblivion, so we trying to preserve from oblivion those post-war comics, which are a true legacy. From that emerged unpretentious popular comic masterpieces.
late 60
Start at the end of this decade a decline of comics derived from new media and changes in lifestyles of the English, as well as more restrictive censorship. The comics are less critical, leading to the gradual abandonment of that happy mood, which in previous years, always acted as a degreaser counterpoint spacer, a bridge between the official and reality. It is also where Tom Thumb undergoes a major makeover, it does not do the typical bloated joke, the old system of Bruguera in which he had to wait until the last bullet to make funny.
1969 marked a fundamental change in the line of editorial Bruguera, cartoons leaving a page (at most one double) and going to be several. This format would remain later in every magazine publisher, where a generation of new writers had gained in strength.
Manuel López
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