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Uruguay

1931

In short

Uruguayan comics grew out of humour and the short newspaper strip.

Julio E. Suárez launched Peloduro in El País in 1933, and his birthday, 16 September, has been marked as the Día de la Historieta since 2011. Fola's Pelopincho y Cachirula, Sergio Bóffano's Charoná and the humour magazines El Dedo and Guambia carried that tradition for decades, and since the 2000s small publishers such as Dragón Comics and Grupo Belerofonte have built a graphic novel scene, while artists like Matías Bergara also work for foreign publishers.

Uruguay in numbers · 01 • 04

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1931

1960s

Artists

Artists from Uruguay in the archive.

Comics from Uruguay in the archive.

Pelopincho y Cachirula, the earliest comic from Uruguay in the archive.

The decade when the most new comics from Uruguay began.

historieta

historieta · Comics from Uruguay

History

Uruguay in 4 chapters

  1. 1931

    to 1964

    Chapter 01

    Peloduro and the first strips

    Fola began at the magazine Mundo Uruguayo in 1931 with Ciengramos y Viola, later known as Pelopincho y Cachirula. Julio E. Suárez's Peloduro first ran in El País on 15 January 1933, and from 1943 to 1964 he also edited, with breaks, a humour weekly of the same name.

    Cover of Peloduro

  2. 1965

    to 1981

    Chapter 02

    Children's magazines and adventure strips

    Sergio Bóffano launched the children's magazine Charoná in 1967, and William Gezzio drew its hero for over 40 years. Fola's pantomime strip Don Gumersindo (1965) ran in syndication for 45 years, and Carlos María Federici's Barry Coal (1968) asked readers to find the killer.

  3. 1982

    to 2004

    Chapter 03

    Humour magazines and long-running strips

    Antonio Dabezíes founded the political humour magazine El Dedo in 1982, and after the dictatorship closed it his team launched Guambia in 1983. Enrique Ardito's Viviana y Yamandú ran in La República from 1991 to 2012, and the 2000 book Historietas.Uy adapted stories by five Uruguayan writers, a model for later book editions.

  4. 2005

    to today

    Chapter 04

    Graphic novels and small presses

    Grupo Belerofonte grew out of the magazine Quimera in 2005 and, with Dragón Comics (2003) and other small labels, began publishing graphic novels such as Los últimos días del Graf Spee (2008). Creators founded the Asociación Uruguaya de Creadores de Historieta on 14 May 2011, and the publication of El Viejo by Alceo Thrasyvoulou and Matías Bergara earned a Brazilian HQ Mix award in 2014.

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