Alberto Breccia

Alberto Breccia (Montevideo, April 15th 1919 - Buenos Aires November 10th 1993) was a draftsman of Argentinian Historieta.

Initially influenced by the North-American cartoon of adventures (Milton Caniff), it had forged a very personal style and in constant evolution, which borrowed from the grotesque Art, with the Expressionnisme and the Clearly-obscure .

It began its professional path in 1939, by joining the publisher Manuel Láinez. It took part in magazines such as Tit-Bits , Rataplán or El Gorrión where it created Comic strip S like Mariquita Terremoto , Kid Río Grande or El Vengador (according to a novel with success).

During the Years 1950, he became honorary member of the Groupe of Venice, composed Italian artists expatriates like Hugo Pratt, Ido Pavone, Horacio Lalia, Faustinelli or Ongaro. With Hugo Pratt, it opened the Pan-American school of art to Buenos Aires. In 1957 it joined Frontiera Editorial, then directed by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, which scénarisait Ernie Pike . In 1958, Breccia launches the series Sherlock Time on a scenario of Héctor Oesterheld in Hora Cero Extra .

In 1960, it started to work for European editors via an artistic agency based with Buenos Aires: It drew some westerns and stories of wars for the English publisher Fleetway. This period did not last a long time. His/her son Enrique also drew some stories of wars for Fleetway at the end of the Années 1960: Spy 13 .

In 1962, it produced with Héctor Oesterheld (carried out during the Argentinian dictatorship) perhaps SA more important band-drawn: Dead Cinder . It gave to the antique dealer Ezra Winston his own aged face, and to his companion Mort Cinder that of his friend Horacio Lalia. Mort Cinder appeared between the July 20th 1962 (n° 714 of the magazine Misterix) and 1964.

In 1968, it draws with his/her son Enrique on a scenario of Héctor Germán Oesterheld a biography as a cartoon of Che Guevara: Che . To escape repression from the mode, they hid the boards in their garden. This cartoon was published only recently.

In the Years 1980, Breccia and Juan Sasturain work with the series wild Perramus satire of the American southern totalitarian modes, while paying homage to the popular cultures of under continent and which marks the apogee of the black and white style of Breccia.

In its last works, Breccia launches out with much success in the cartoon color.

Its bonds with the Italy enabled him to publish in 1985 the luxurious Quattro incubi (Four incubate) with the Editiemme editions of Milan, with lithography (taking again the ultimate visit of the gentleman Malato, addition of Camberwell (Jean Ray), the walk of russet-red death (Edgar Allan Poe), and the black cat (Edgar Allan Poe))

Works published (partial: French translations)

Dead Cinder , scenario of Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Serg, 1974, after a prepublication in the review Phoenix of the n° 29 with the n° 33 (republished in three volumes by Glénat in 1982, then in two volumes by Giddiness Graphic in 1999 (the 3rd announced remainder))
Cthulhu , scenario of Norberto Buscaglia according to Howard Philips Lovecraft, Humanoïdes Associated, 1979 (takes again the news published in quarterly the Métal Howling in 1978-79; republished by Rackham in 2004)
Plate of the exposure Breccia (500 e.g.) to Paris then Geneva, Giddiness Graphic, 1988
Perramus , scenario of Juan Sasturain, Glénat, 1986 (a volume) - 1991 (three volumes)
anguish of Haffner - Antiperiplea , scenario of Joao Guimaraes-Rosa and Juan Sasturain, Giddiness Graphic, 1988
Shades and lights , Giddiness Graphic, 1992
Report/ratio on the blind men , scenario of Ernesto Sabato, Giddiness Graphic, 1993
the éternaute , scenario of Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Humanoïdes Associated, 1993

Dracula, Dracul, Vlad? Bah , Humanoïdes Associated, 1993
the revealing Heart , adaptation of news of Edgar Allan Poe, Humanoïdes Associated, 1995
Port Folio Sherlock Time - Made your plays , with Héctor Oesterheld, presented by Jose Munoz, in the review the 9th Art - books of the museum of the cartoon n° 3,1998
Che , scenario of Héctor Germán Oesterheld, and with the collaboration of his/her son Enrique Breccia for the drawing, Freon editions in 2001
Buscavidas , scenario of Carlos Trillo, Rackham, 2001
Nightmares , Rackham, 2003

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