Martz Schmidt
Martz Schmidt | |
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Born | Gustavo Martínez Gómez 3 July 1922 Cartagena, Murcia |
Died | 5 January 1998 Barcelona | (aged 75)
Nationality | Spanish |
Area(s) | comics artist and writer |
Notable works | El profesor Tragacanto y su clase que es de espanto |
Martz Schmidt or Schmidt is the pseudonym of the Spanish comic author Gustavo Martínez Gómez (
.Biography
His professional career in comics began in the late 1940s, publishing humorous comics in magazines such as Nicolás, Florita o Paseo Infantil.
He alternated his work as a cartoonist during this decade with other activities, such as scenography, wall painting, or his integration into the La Buhardilla cultural group, alongside Lorenzo Gomis, Joan Perucho and Armando Matías Guiu. In the early 1960s, he founded the Martz Schmidt Studio, a design and advertising company. He also created for Bruguera the series: La pandilla Cu-Cux Plaf (1962) about a group of wannabe detective children against a masked murderer, El Sheriff Chiquito, que es todo un gallito (1962) a western parody or Don Trilita (1964) about a brawny muscular man.
He also wrote comics for the character
Martz Schmidt continued working for Bruguera during the 1970s and 1980s, sometimes with scripts of other authors such as José Luis Ballestín or Jaume Ribera. In 1985, however, due to the publisher's financial problems, he moved his series Cleopatra, reina de Egipto from Mortadelo magazine to Guai!, a new and ephemeral comic magazine of publisher Editorial Grijalbo.[6] For the publisher Ediciones B he created in 1979 Deliranta Rococó about a fat, rich and capricious woman and her short buttler.[7]
He died in 1998 of lung cancer.[8]
References
- ^ Martz Schmidt in Tebeosfera (in Spanish)
- ^ "Gustavo Martínez Gómez | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es.
- ^ Matías Guiu, Armando, with n interview with Raf, for Comic Story-4, fourth issue od Bruguelandia, Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona, 10/26/1981, pages 30-31.
- ^ Page in Humoristán (in Spanish)
- ^ Cuando Bruguera se puso gótica: Doña Urraca y ‘El castillo de Nosferatu’ in caninomag.es (in Spanish)
- ^ Cleopatra en los tebeos in 13, rue Bruguera (in Spanish)
- ^ Deliranta Rococó, lucha de clases para niños en 1976 in Culturplaza (in Spanish)
- ^ "Gustavo Martz-Schmidt". www.lambiek.net.
External links
- Martz Schmidt in Lambiek Comiclopedia