Carlos Trillo

 Great Blog dedicated to the prolific Carlos Trillo.


The blog is full of scans from Trillo & Zaffino stories realized for the Italian Markt, which are a delight.

Here's an example (follow the link)

This is the link to the Spanish language Wikipedia page about Trillo (definetly more satisfying and complete than its counterpart in English)

Alberto Breccia

Alberto Breccia is one of the undisputed masters of Argentinian comics.

I must confess that if it weren’t for writer and friend Alessandro Ferrari, who suggested me to give a better look to the last Mort Cinder story (printed in an anthology collection that I lent to him!) I may have continued to consider him “one of the Argentinians”.

Breccia was a master of lighting and mood. Even if based on a very solid and “classical” drawing stile, his characters and backgrounds have a strong expressionistic look. He must also be remembered for experimenting a lot with mixed media techniques, comprising of photo collages, watercolors and zip-a-tones to create unique textures.

He has probably been a big influence on Frank Miller, both for themes (the final Mort Cinder story is a retelling of the battles of Thermopylae) and for the use of stark black and white contrasts.

An important collaboration in his life was with writer Héctor Oesterheld:  the duo collaborated on a number of series, besides Mort Cinder, and on the comic-book biography of Ernesto Che Guevara (co-illustrated by Breccia’s son, Enrique) which is generally considered the reason of Oesterheld’s disappearance in 1976.