Carlos Trillo

Carlos Trillo (Buenos Aires, May 1, 1943-London, May 8, 2011) was an Argentine comic book writer and scriptwriter. He collaborated with numerous Argentine cartoonists such as Alberto Breccia, Enrique Breccia, Domingo Mandrafina, Horacio Altuna, Juan Jiménez, Carlos Meglia, Eduardo Risso, Ernesto García Seijas, among others. He twice received the Yellow Kid Award for Best International Author (1978 and 1996) and the Best Screenplay Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (1999).

Biography

Beginnings

Carlos Trillo began his professional work in 1963 and the following year began working at the Patoruzú magazine (where he collaborated until 1968) and then at the García Ferré publishing house, writing short stories for the latter. and journalistic style notes as well as scripts for the publication's comic series: Hijitus, Antifaz, Topo Gigio and La Familia Panconara, among others.

In 1972 he joined the magazine Satiricón, where he worked alongside Oswal, Horacio Altuna and Lito Fernández.

Maturity

In 1975 he moved to the magazine Mengano, in which he collaborated from number one with Altuna and produced Un tal Daneri with Alberto Breccia. With Alberto's son, Enrique Breccia, between 1977 and 1982 she produced Alvar Mayor , published in its entirety in the magazine Skorpio in Argentina and also in Italy, Spain and France.

Together with Horacio Altuna, Carlos Trillo was the creator of the popular comic strip El Loco Chávez, which was published daily in the Buenos Aires newspaper Clarín between the 26th of July 1975 and November 10, 1987. The protagonist, Chávez, is a journalist who through his adventures narrates the day-to-day life of the country, with social conflicts, economic ups and downs, enduring the bad mood of his boss. Balderi (a caricature of the real editor of the newspaper), his crush on Pampita, a brunette with whom all the men in Buenos Aires fell in love, and friends like Malone, another stray like Chávez.

El Loco Chávez was soon at the height of the humorous stories on that page and, in reality, he was like a soccer team that worked perfectly, winning a game against the readers every day. mornings. It must be added that Clarín sold an enormous number of copies and was growing, and that the censorship that followed later increased the small messages in the comics. Later, Trillo explained about one of his phrases: ""Che, what a face is lettuce in the market" was taken almost as a subversive proclamation." He was also a fan of Racing Club (like Altuna), which gave it a romantic air, of a defender of lost causes, which Trillo took advantage of in a good way "...it was doing very badly in the standings for a club with a huge number of followers. So, this suffering for Racing, which so many shared, was a great seasoning for history". When the cancellation of the strip was announced, in the Racing gallery they sang "El Loco no se va".

They later extended their collaboration to various comic strips, among them the most renowned was Las puertitas del Sr. López, which appeared for the first time in the science fiction magazine El Péndulo in October 1979, and then in the magazine Humor from 1980. The main character, López, is a cowardly office worker unable to rebel, who enters other worlds through doors (always those of a bathroom), but he always returns to his reality. Made and published in the middle of the military dictatorship, Horacio Altuna recounts that: "The story was about a very faint-hearted guy; it was a vision of Argentina under the dictatorship." Made into a film in 1988, also titled Las puertitas del Sr. López, the film won the Grand Prize at the Chaplin Festival of the Humour, in Vevey, Switzerland.

In 1982 they published El último recreo in the Spanish magazine 1984. In Argentina the series began in Superhumor, which published three episodes, to continue in Fierro, starting with No. 7. The plot of the work is that after the explosion of a bomb that eliminates only those who have reached sexual maturity, children, the only survivors, must manage to survive in a world without adults. The vices of adults do not take long to appear, and selfishness and violence emerge, as innocence is lost.

El Negro Blanco, together with cartoonist Ernesto García Seijas, represented the continuity of El Loco Chávez in the pages of Clarín since September 1987, although he did not become as popular as El Loco Chávez.

With Lucas Varela, Trillo signed his last great work, El Síndrome Guastavino, a dark and fascinating graphic novel about illegal repression in Argentina, which was a candidate for best comic strip in 2008 at the prestigious Angoulême festival (France).

The editorial adventure

He founded El Globo Editor, which launched the magazines Puertitas (1989) and Puertitas Supersexy (1992).

Together with Jordi Bernet and Eduardo Maicas they made Clara de noche, a weekly comic, published by El Jueves in Spain and Página/12 in Argentina. The comic narrates the daily life of a prostitute who also has to raise a child. The author recounted that Clara at night arose when the editor asked him to bring him "a fucking character".

Between April 28, 2002 and September 6, 2003, he published in Clarín Cazados, together with O'kif.

Passed away in London on May 7, 2011, while on vacation. He was married to the Argentine writer Ema Wolf, with whom he had two children.

Works

Historietistic

Testing

Filmography

Cinema

• Imaginators (2008) (interviewed)
• There are no more men (1991)
• Mr.'s puertitas. López (1988) (author and writer)