Carlos Loiseau

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Carlos Loiseau ("Caloi")
BornNovember 9, 1948
DiedMay 8, 2012(2012-05-08) (aged 63)
Other names"Caloi"
Years active1966–2012
SpouseMaría Verónica Ramírez
Websitewww.caloi.com.ar

Carlos Loiseau (November 9, 1948 – May 8, 2012) was a prolific

Argentine
cartoonist and humorist. He was popularly known in Argentina by his byline, Caloi.

Life and work

Loiseau was born in

Juan Carlos Colombres.[3]

Loiseau's first marriage, at age 19, ended after two years.

animated short, Las Invasiones Inglesas (The British Invasions), in 1970. Caloi was the chief political cartoonist for the news weekly Análisis between 1968 and 1971. He later became a regular contributor to the satirical magazines Satyricón (1972–74) and Mengano (1974-76), to the sports weekly El Gráfico (1976–82), and numerous other periodicals.[2]

His most enduring association, however, would be with the nation's leading news daily,

Afro-Cuban character of his same species). Another recurring character in the series - Clemente's observant son Jacinto - was patterned after one of Caloi's own sons. A fixture comic strip on the back page of Clarín for decades, Clemente also followed ongoing current events and at times created controversy.[4]

The most memorable of these was a storyline around the

Argentine team played some of the most confetti-strewn in local football history.[6]

Caloi would find himself at odds with figures from the same dictatorship even after the return of democracy. An episode of his popular

Channel 13 children's show, Clemente, was banned in 1983 by judicial injunction. The episode featured a storyline in which la mulatóna was kidnapped by a bat-wing eared vampire resembling former Economy Minister José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz (who sued for defamation); the vampire's ransom - 40 billion dollars, "plus interest" - referred to the foreign debt amassed during the conservative Economy Minister's tenure.[7] Spun off from an animated special aired during the 1982 FIFA World Cup, the show introduced Clemente fans to other characters, notably the "Cameroonian fan" and his signature ditty: Burum-boom-boom.[8] Co-written by Alejandro Dolina and Jorge Palacio ("Faruk"), the show was a success and remained on the air until 1989.[2]

Caloi remarried, and he and María Verónica Ramírez had five children.

Martín Fierro Award in 1993 and was eventually withdrawn by the Loiseaus themselves in 1999.[9] It reappeared briefly on cable television in 2002, returned to public television in 2005, and earned a number of awards.[2]

His other credits include scripts for the theater and advertisers; as a co-writer for Dolina's 1988 television series La barra de Dolina; as a jurist for numerous cinema and animation awards; and the lion emblem for Club Atlético River Plate. His works were featured exhibits at among other venues the Recoleta Cultural Center in 1987 and 1999; in Adrogué in 2000; at the Palais de Glace in 2004; and in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, in 2009.[2] He shared the latter exhibit with his son Juan Martín ("Tute"), after whom Clemente's own son Jacinto was patterned, and who became a noted illustrator in his own right.[4]

Caloi also produced a traveling festival of animated film from 1999 to 2001 whose features were projected onto moveable, inflatable screens mounted in parks across the country.[10] He had 40 books published between 1968 and 2008, of which 17 were Clemente compilations.[2] He earned the Konex Award for his work as a graphic humorist in 1982 and 1992,[11] as well as the Yomiuri Prize (Tokyo, 1984), and at the International Festival of the Humor of Bordighera (1994) among others. He was named an Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires in 2009.[2]

The noted illustrator continued to work despite declining health in later years, and on May 3, 2012, his sole full-length animated film, Ánima Buenos Aires, premiered.[12] Caloi died five days later in a Buenos Aires clinic; he was 63.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Muestras de dolor, admiración y respeto ante la muerte de Caloi". El Ciudadano del GBA. Archived from the original on 2012-12-30.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Carlos Loiseau (Caloi)". caloi.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-11.
  3. ^ a b "La historieta está de luto: murió Caloi, el padre de Clemente". Clarín.
  4. ^ a b "Clemente: la mascota de la Argentina". Clarín.
  5. ^ "Murió el dibujante argentino Caloi". InfoBae. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10.
  6. ^ "Cuando ganó la guerra de los papelitos en el Mundial ´78". Clarín. 9 May 2012.
  7. ^ "Prohibido por Orejón". La Semana. Archived from the original on 2010-05-27.
  8. ^ "¡Burumbumbum, burumbumbum, yo soy el hincha de Camerún!". TN Noticias.
  9. ^ a b "Entrevista a Caloi". El Confesionario. Archived from the original on 2009-04-22.
  10. ^ a b "Caloi: ¿Quién nos dibuja la sonrisa?". Los Andes. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
  11. ^ "Carlos Loiseau (Caloi)". Fundación Konex. Archived from the original on 2013-11-15. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
  12. ^ "Ánima Buenos Aires (2011)". Cine Nacional.

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