Manuel García Ferré
Manuel García Ferré | |
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Manuel García Ferré (8 October 1929 – 28 March 2013) was a
Biography
García Ferré was born in Almería, Spain, in 1929. He arrived in Argentina in 1947, and worked for advertising agencies while studying architecture. In 1952 his character Pi Pío was accepted and published by the important magazine Billiken. In 1964 he created Anteojito, a children's magazine which at its height in the 1970s, had a circulation of 300,000 copies.[1]
As director of his own animation studio, García Ferré created numerous animated TV series and films. The most influential of these was
García Ferré was declared an Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires by the City Legislature in 2009.[3]
Films
- Mil intentos y un invento (September 14, 1972) - writer, director
- Trapito (July 17, 1975) - writer, director
- Ico, el caballito valiente (July 9, 1987) - writer, director
- Manuelita (July 8, 1999) - writer, director
- Corazón, las alegrías de Pantriste (July 6, 2000) - writer, director
- Soledad y Larguirucho (July 5, 2012) - writer, director
Related links
- Once Upon a Time...Man(this appeared in his books about Petete)
References
- Manuel García Ferré at IMDb
- García Ferré's Comics (Spanish)
- ^ a b "Imágenes de los personajes de Manuel García Ferré, y un breve resumen de su vida" (in Spanish). Todo Historietas.
- ^ "Sombrero, sombreritus... medio siglo de Hijitus". Noticias Axxon.
- ^ "Anteojito y Antifaz visitan la Legislatura". 4 Semanas. September 22, 2009.