Southbound

September 15th, 2008

Unless something unexpected happens with the Large Hadron Collider that sends us to the netherworld, I’m about to visit Argentina and meet some friends during the second half of September. Thought it would be funny to throw up a quick* doodle to “commemorate” the event. And so here we have beloved and longstanding Argentinian characters (L. to. R): Larguirucho (literally, “Longish guy”), Hijitus and Anteojito (”Small Glasses” — sort of ironic name considering the size of those spectacles) helping our friends to get along the streets of Buenos Aires.

These characters -and many others- were created by the extremely creative mind of Manuel García Ferré, a Spaniard who moved to Argentina in the mid-1940s, created an educational entertainment emporium and from who there is terribly too few information in English to even bother linking; you will have much better luck if you know enough Spanish to search around.

*Thinking these things up is quick; adding color and lines to it is not, and I keep forgetting of that every time. You probably won’t see these too often on this site – I’ll mostly stick to simpler sketches. Done almost entirely on Sketchbook Pro with a few little touches in Photoshop.

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[...] writing this on a hurry as I am bound to go south again, this time to do a lot more networking with people from the comics and illustration fields [...]

Toonspotting — Comic art and sketches journal by Alberto González, March 24th 2009

[...] celebration of the characters of Argentine animation master Mr. García Ferré (see earlier entries here and here), I thought of depicting Anteojito (left) and Hijitus (right) about to start this match as [...]

» It’s A Passion, at Betobeto.com, October 12th 2008