Paraguay.
Paraguay
1981
Paraguayan comics grew out of press caricature, from Miguel Acevedo's portraits of the 1910s to Andrés Guevara's cartoons of the 1920s, while Paraguayan-born talents such as the writer Robin Wood and the cartoonist Mannken made their careers in Argentina.
At home the first adventure comic, Ivo, el piloto audaz, appeared in the 1960s, and Quimera, launched in 1981 by Roberto Goiriz, Juan Moreno and Carlos Argüello, was the first Paraguayan comics magazine. Since 2010 historical comics sold with the daily Última Hora, by Enzo Pertile and Javier Viveros, have led a new wave alongside manga and local superheroes.
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1981
2010s
Artists from Paraguay in the archive.
Comics from Paraguay in the archive.
Quimera, the earliest comic from Paraguay in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Paraguay began.
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Paraguay in 4 chapters
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Paraguay.
4 chapters
Chapter 1
1913
to 1930
Caricature in the press
1913
to 1930
Chapter 01
Caricature in the press
Miguel Acevedo showed some 25 caricatures of public figures in 1913 and then drew for the magazine Crónica and the handwritten satirical magazine Tipos y Tipetes before his death in 1915. Andrés Guevara began drawing cartoons for El Diario and El Liberal in the early 1920s as part of the Generation of 1923, then left for Brazil and, in 1930, for Argentina.
1960
to 1980
Chapter 02
Ivo and the Paraguayans of Argentine comics
In the 1960s the architect Aníbal Ferreira Menchaca, known as Tata, wrote and drew Ivo, el piloto audaz for the magazine Farolito, the first Paraguayan adventure comic, and the writer Mario Halley Mora, as Álex, scripted the first comics in Guaraní or in both languages. Abroad, Mannken, who made his career in Argentina, debuted in the magazine Asalto in 1960, and Robin Wood created Nippur de Lagash with Lucho Olivera in 1967.
1981
to 2009
Chapter 03
Quimera and satire under the dictatorship
Quimera, the first Paraguayan comics magazine, appeared in 1981, led by Roberto Goiriz, Juan Moreno and Carlos Argüello. Goiriz's Jopo commented on politics under the dictatorship, Argüello created the Tarzan-like Avaré and Moreno the peasant Lino Meza. After the fall of Alfredo Stroessner in 1989, the cartoonist Caló joined ABC Color, where his political cartoons have run for more than three decades.
2010
to today
Chapter 04
Historical comics, manga and local heroes
From April 2010 Última Hora sold Enzo Pertile's Vencer o Morir, fascicles on the last battles of the War of the Triple Alliance, and in 2013 Pólvora y Polvo, Chaco War stories written by Javier Viveros and drawn by Pertile and Juan Moreno. Viveros also adapted stories by Augusto Roa Bastos and others for the collection Literatura paraguaya en historietas, while the superhero CoquitoMAN, the manga magazine Mugen and the series Caos Quest widened the range of genres.
The comics to know
- Ivo, el piloto audazcomic stripAníbal Ferreira Menchaca (Tata). First Paraguayan adventure comic, published in the magazine Farolito in the 1960s.
- Quimera1981 · comics magazineRoberto Goiriz, Juan Moreno and Carlos Argüello. First Paraguayan comics magazine.
- Jopocomic stripRoberto Goiriz. Anthropomorphic character who joked about politics under the dictatorship.
- Nippur de Lagash1967 · comic stripRobin Wood and Lucho Olivera. Argentine series and one of the most important works of the Paraguayan writer.
- Vencer o Morir2010 · comic book seriesEnzo Pertile. Fascicles on the battles of Piribebuy, Acosta Ñu and Cerro Corá, sold with Última Hora.
- Pólvora y Polvo2013 · comic book seriesJavier Viveros, Enzo Pertile and Juan Moreno. Sixteen weekly fascicles of Chaco War stories issued with Última Hora.
- Literatura paraguaya en historietascomic book seriesJavier Viveros. Servilibro collection adapting stories by Roa Bastos, Helio Vera, Josefina Plá and others.
The people to know
- Miguel Acevedo1890 to 1915Caricaturist of the 1910s, whose work peaked in the handwritten magazine Tipos y Tipetes.
- Andrés Guevara1904 to 1963Cartoonist of the Generation of 1923 who later worked in Brazil and Argentina.
- Robin Wood1944 to 2021Paraguayan writer of Nippur de Lagash, Dago and many other Argentine and European comics.
- Roberto GoirizBorn 1961Co-founder of Quimera and creator of Jopo.
- Enzo PertileBorn 1976Última Hora illustrator, author of Vencer o Morir and artist of Pólvora y Polvo.
- Javier ViverosBorn 1977Writer of historical comics and of the Literatura paraguaya en historietas collection.
- CalóBorn 1967Main editorial cartoonist of ABC Color since 1989.
More artists from Paraguay
- Juan Morenocomics artist
- Carlos Argüellocomics artist
- Aníbal Ferreira Menchacaarchitect
- Vidal Gonzálezcomics writer
- Nicodemus Espinozacartoonist
- Leda Sostoaillustrator
- Andrés Colmán Gutiérrezcomics writer
- Norma Flores Allendecomics writer
- Vania Boidanichcomics artist
- Mannken1937 to 2011 · cartoonist
- Daniel GugliottaBorn 1940 · cartoonist
- Mario Halley Mora1926 to 2003 · writer