Interview Carlos Trillo
Carlos Trillo is without doubt one of the most popular and beloved Argentine writers in Italy, perhaps the most beloved of all. Originally published in Italy for Editiemme, Books and Rizzoli-Milano Eura Editoriale, and will be the latter that his name is mostly associated, in spite of further collaboration with Editions Productions Cartoons and Comic Art
Among his readings there are the classics of children's literature but also comic books. Many comic books during the period of Peronism in Argentina leaves a journal for each day of the week. Nay, more, nearly two a day, on Monday you can choose between Patoruzú and Billiken , on Wednesday between Hora Cero Semanal and El Tony, Fridays and between Interval Misterix (for the record, on Tuesday was the day of Pato Donald and Thursdays Patoruzito ). Even newspapers and magazines have their own section or the comic strips.
Carlos Trillo began working between 1962 and 1963, while still a university student - to the delight of comic fans will not become a lawyer. Comics are not yet, but fate seems to be traced: his first humorous stories appear in the journal Patoruzú fact, dedicated the eponymous character of Dante Quinterno, an institution in Argentina.
In 1966 he produced his first real script, this time for a competitor of Patoruzú : the magazine Anteojito Manuel Garcia Ferré. It is a very important period of apprenticeship under the guidance of Alberto Heredia, editor in chief at Garcia Ferré, during which you Trillo bones with the series Panconara La Familia, a rare familia muy , El Topo Gigio, El hada Patricia , Hijitus , Antifaz , all existing characters. Unique character created by him in this period is Wapiti, el cazador de castores , which appears on Misterix . The attention of professional
Carlos Trillo in this period are not directed only to comics, that even a closer look probably plays a marginal role: between articles and stories is also the author and radio host (activities which later say it was very important for writing comics) and copywriter at an advertising agency. Also write the text of the message for children El Club de Hijitus , so will the character of the witch played by Patibula Chela Ruiz.
By Alejandro Dolina, his close associate and friend of those years, writes even a play, but that will not ever be represented.
All these activities absorb it since 1968, when his collaboration with the comic book seems to stop or at least greatly rarefied - and soon the Argentine magazine for children will enter into crisis. But luck is only a temporary pause.
At the turn of the '60s and '70s out three of his essays on humor and comic book written together with the cartoonist Albert Broccoli and in 1972 his career reached a milestone: he became editor of the magazine Satiricon .
Consistent with the name of the magazine, you do so much humor and satire, but there are also many comics. That's where Trillo works for the first time with Lito Fernandez and Horacio Altuna. In 1974 he moved from Satiricon to Mengano , becoming managing editor.
not easy years for Argentine society, much less the comic book, especially if overtly political - or even veiled criticisms against the regime, be it that of Isabel Peron or the dictatorship imposed by Jorge Videla in 1976 . Satiricon is shut down in 1975 and Mengano , although by far less polemical tone, following the same fate in 1976, only four days after the coup.
Carlos Trillo back to his work as a copywriter at the port until it finds a record edition. A happy landing, considering the quality of work that builds and that will spread beyond the borders of Argentina.
Scutti and operated by Alfredo Alvaro Zerboni, produce editions of the magazines fundamental Record in Skorpio is the leader. Above all, they sell their products abroad. Trillo is widespread and known in Europe, where it is quickly recognized its value. And on
Skorpio his articles also appear on the comic strip written with Guillermo Saccomanno.
Meanwhile, since 1975, publishes the daily newspaper El Clarin the legendary strip of Buenos Aires daily El Loco Chavez designed by Horacio Altuna. The journalist Hugo Chavez takes root in the imagination of players from Argentina, and its events will be even is a TV series. The transposition from one medium to another is a destiny that will (or could have) too many other comics Trillo.
In 1978 he was awarded the Yellow Kid comic strip in the international exhibition of Lucca. It is certainly the most important, but only the first of a series: among the many awards for 4 years in a row the readers of the magazine Area 84 elect the best writer, as the jury of the Comic Exhibition in Barcelona in 1984, you will get back to the Yellow Kid Lucca '96 el'Alph'Art at Angoulême in 1999.
Through contacts with the English market and Josep Toutain, publisher of comic magazines a lot, Carlos Trillo supports a variety of masterpieces. It is on this occasion that comes into contact with Jordi Bernet which will begin with a close collaboration that lasts to this day and has produced many key works.
In the early '80s are so many fronts on which it moves Trillo: stories from issues most mature and raw to Toutain (which we admire in magazines in Italy this page), the unfading Loco Chavez and the production of more serial Skorpio .
off in 1988 with advertising. Soon it will also become editor and manager of a comic book. Meanwhile Loco Chavez has closed its cycle and replace it on El Clarin El Negro Blanco arrives, beautifully designed by Ernesto Garcia Seijas. In Argentina
Skorpio continues to go out (not too regularly, in fact) while the other records of the journals have closed down in 1981. Between 1991 and 1992 there will be an attempt to raise with the new magazine El Tajo but lasts only ten numbers. Also in Argentina Skorpio is a monthly magazine, is in Italy a week. Not only that: the week that the package must Eura also because there are two Lanciostory (and there are also attachments More with new material - good times, those!). Even with the material production Italian and Franco-Belgian, most boards are in short as possible. Preferably high quality of the Eura has always offered its readers and subjects without venture turns rough or too experimental.
Carlos Trillo is then co-opted by Stelio Rizzo, Sergio Loss and Philip Ciolfi that will work almost exclusively on projects specifically designed. If in previous years to identify with the Eura Carlos Trillo was very strong, between 1988 and 1999 will become automatic. Even the wildest stories or details which can hardly find a place on the weekly (as Cicca Dum Dum ) are proposed in the first instance, however, the Euro.
The most famous result of this partnership will Cybersix . But it is only the most striking example, one of the few who managed to carve out a popular outside the Italian journals, which are presented many other excellent comics produced exclusively, almost all worthy of reprinting.
In 1991, another key figure who creates the next year comes to Skorpio which still continues: Clara de Noche , designed by Jordi Bernet and written with the collaboration of Eduardo gagman Maicas.
the late '90s, however, just Cybersix will be the stone of the scandal that will divorce Trillo and Eura. Carlos Trillo and virtually disappears.
In late 2000, Black Spot (ie Francesco Coniglio) public Like life, comics experiment from its original format designed by Laura Scarpa.
Meanwhile on Skorpio continues Chiara di Notte but other comics Trillo appear only after their transit through other markets where the rights are purchased is the case, for example, Bird (translated as L ' broken wing on Skorpio 31, 2001) and the cat Neferou ( Skorpio 24/2004).
present the production of new and old Carlos Trillo is published in Italy by Edizioni 001, Allagalla, Aurea, Coniglio Editore, Kawama Editorial Planeta De Agostini and St. Paul.
Minimum Bibliography:
1) speeches and critical essays by Carlos Trillo :
The Eternauta Nos 6 and 10 Editions Productions Cartoons, in August 1982 and December 1983 (action by Carlos Trillo limited to a few lines also appears in Number 3, May 1982)
Abril in Buenos Aires , in line ¡ Latina! - Comics between Italy and Argentina (Edizioni secret papers, the exhibition catalog of the same name which took place from 20 December 1992 to 25 January 1993 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome), written in collaboration with Guillermo Saccomanno
Historia de la Historieta - history and stories of the Argentine comic , Proglio Editions, 2007, written in collaboration with Guillermo Saccomanno
2) critical interventions on Carlos Trillo :
Special Eura , Lucca Comics, 1994
Fumo di China No. 28, 1995
Fumo di China No. 53/54 , 1997
Fumo di China No. 138, February 2006 (previews of upcoming work)
3) interviews :
Fumo di China No. 20a, July / August 1993
The man who looks (before writing) in Blue No. 56 Blue Press, October 1995
Fumo di China No. 39/40, 1996
Smoke of China No. 51, 1997
Fumo di China No. 65, 1999 (in tandem with Juan Gimenez)
A Trillo for every occasion, in comic School No. 1, Rabbit Press, June 2002
Carlos Trillo was a frequent guest of the book or article on clouds Lanciostory edited by Luca Raffaelli, which is a valuable source of information although the formula of the weekly informal chat obviously does not allow too much detail (not in the short term at least). Specifically, we find the following numbers Lanciostory :
6-11/1994
32-35/1995 24-25/1994 (in tandem with Eduardo Risso)
22-30/1996 (in tandem with Roque Vitacco)
32-36/1996 1-2/1997
41-44/1997 38/1997 15/1998
25-26/1998 10-12/1999 (the latter also targeted Hugo Pratt and the birth of the relationship between Italy and Argentina)
4) Argentine history of comics:
Historietas - History, cartoon characters and the Latin American routes (Mazzotta, 1997)
¡Linea Latina! - Comics between Italy and Argentina (Edizioni secret papers catalog of the exhibition of the same name which took place from 20 December 1992 to 25 January 1993 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome)
Oesterheld Donde esta? - Comic argentino desaparecido (Lo Scarabeo, 2002)
Historia de la Historieta - history and stories of the Argentine comic (Proglio Editions, 2007)
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