Guillermo Mordillo Bio, Age, Death, Family, Net Worth
Guillermo Mordillo was an Argentine creator of cartoons and animations and was one of the most widely published cartoonists of the 1970s.
He is most famous for his humorous, colorful, and wordless depictions of love, sports, and long-necked animals.
Guillermo Mordillo Biography
He was born on 4 August 1932 and died on 30 June 2019. He is The son of Spanish parents, Mordillo spent his childhood in Villa Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires, where he had an early interest in drawing.
Mordillo, obtained the certificate of Illustrator from the School of Journalism In 1948. Two years later, while continuing to study, as part of the animation team Burone Bruch he illustrated children’s stories (Tales of Perrault Tales Schmid, The Musicians of Bremen and The Three Little Pigs) edited by Codex.
He co-founded Galas Studios, dedicated to the production of animations. Meanwhile, he continued to develop his career as an illustrator and published some strips in local magazines.
then he moved to Lima, Peru, where he worked as a freelance designer for the advertising company McCann Erickson. In 1958 Aesop’s Fables illustrated and Samaniego for Editorial Iberia Lima.
After having done greeting-card illustrations for the Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards, he left for the United States in 1960.
When there he was employed by Paramount Pictures Studios in New York. Part of the performance of the film in two globally significant characters: Popeye and Little Lulu and creates two characters for the short film Trick for tree.
Three years later, on 20 August his life changed direction again. This time he travelled to Europe, arriving in Paris on 19 September.
There, he worked at first humorous letters to Mic-Max Edition. In July 1966 he began to collaborate with the magazine Le Pelerin and shortly after doing the same in Paris Match. Two years later, his work started being printed in publications from other parts of the world, most notably Germany’s Stern.
In Paris he met his wife Amparo Camarasa, marrying in 1969. They have two children: Sebastian Jerome (1970) and Cecile Isabelle (1972).
he moved to Mallorca In 1980, Spain and was named President of the International Association of Authors of Comics and Cartoons (CFIA) based in Geneva, Switzerland. After 18 years in Spain, he returned to France in 1998. The following year he participates in the Creative Workshop Zermatt, Switzerland.
In 2007 he experimented with new materials: acrylics, pastels and crayons. The following year he performed with Art Petrus a series of reproductions of pictures in high definition.
Also that year he sold a numbered and autographed internet publication, Mordillo Collection.
Death Cause
The famous comic strip cartoonist Guillermo Mordillo Menéndez has died at age 86 in Mallorca, where he had a house and spent long periods, they have informed.
Links:
- „El Pais“-Artikel (spanisch)
- Mordillo
- Guillermo Mordillo (Wikipedia)