Roberto Fontanarrosa
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Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, known popularly as El Negro Fontanarrosa (November 26, 1944 in Rosario – July 19, 2007), was an Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer. During his extended career, Fontanarrosa became one of the most acclaimed historieta artists of his country, as well as a respected fiction and short story writer.[citation needed] He created two hugely popular comic strips, as well as their parodic protagonists: Inodoro Pereyra, a gaucho, and Boogie, el aceitoso, a gun-for-hire. He also created the comic book Los Clásicos según Fontanarrosa ("The Classics According to Fontanarrosa"), which contained a selection of humorous parodies of universal literature mainstays originally published in the magazine Chaupinela, in the 1970s.
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Born | Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa (1944-11-26)November 26, 1944 |
Died | July 19, 2007(2007-07-19) (aged 62) Rosario, , Santa Fe, Argentina |
Other names | El Negro ("The Black One"/"Black man") |
Years active | 1968 — 2007 |
In 2013 an Argentine animated film directed by Juan José Campanella and loosely based on Fontanarrosa's short story Memorias de un wing derecho was released to box office success.