Figuracion

Illustrations for "Figuracion de Gabino Betinotti", poems by Oscar Steimberg, published in Buenos Aires in 1999. You may notice a nod in the direction of René Magritte in one of the pictures.

Marc

This drawing was done by the wonderful and very much missed Marc Davis. Oscar's Tinkerbell was my young daughter.

Segar

I'd like to share with you this jewell from my private collection.

The Usual Suspects

This was an idea for titles for a BBC program on identities. The producer didn't care much for it and we ended up doing the usual run of the mill stuff.

The Book of Late Afternoon

These are pictures from a book to be published in Buenos Aires next year (in Spanish).

Shadows

These are some preliminary sketches I drew for Klacto Animations short "Shadow Cycle", produced by Sir Paul McCartney

Francois

The artist I most admire and the one that had the most profound influence in me and my work is Andre Francois, who sadly passed away this year. Three years ago, when he was 87, his studio burned down and almost all his works dissapeared. He continued working, using the charred remains of his "oeuvre" to make beautiful and life enhacing collages. I'd like to celebrate Francois and his tremendous "Joie de vivre" with this card he sent me to celebrate the new Millennium. Thanks for everything, Master.
(this need for celebrating came to me after reading in the newspaper about Bush and Blair ..People that contributed NOTHING to humanity even if they were in the position to do so!)

Boop & Great Animation Moments

If you want to see some drawings of "The Boop Sisters" and "The Day When..." an apocryphal history of animation, please visit:

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=cat&category1=Reviews&article_no=873

Illustrations

Here are two illustrations I drew for the New Yorker in the 90's and a cover for a Spanish magazine from 1970.

Billy Gonzalez

In Buenos Aires, in 1965/66, I used to animate "Commercials Series". That is, a three minutes animated series with commercials incorporated. It was called "Billy Gonzalez, Private Detective". They were only shown in Rosario, the second largest city in the country.
I animated it almost single-handed a minute a week. This is after storyboarding, designing it and doing the layouts. The scripts were so abysmal that nowadays they seem funny. I hated everything about it, it was a chore but I recently found an old 16mm print and thought that they were not so bad after all...Here are some stills. I'll post some more in the future.

Polidoro

In 1965 I began to illustrate children books for a small publishing house in Buenos Aires. The intention of this house was to publish fortnightly books that were not blatantly commercial as those published by the bigger companies, and to make them accesible to the general public. They were beautifully narrated and illustrated by excellent young artists. The collection was called "Cuentos de Polidoro" and became quite popular. I drew fifteen of them starting with this one: "Puss in Boots" narrated by Beatriz Ferro

Wide Prairie

This film was produced by us at Klacto Animations just before Linda McCartney passed away...She wrote the song and we animated it. We could not describe the film as memorable but the work was done with enormous commitment, professionalism and joy.

You can see some more stills at:

http://www.klactomation.blogspot.com/

Beginnings

In one of my recent visits to Buenos Aires I met an old friend who gave me a 1961 catalogue of a festival of Argentinean animation. I found in it images of my first animated commercial. I designed and animated it in 1960 when I was only sixteen. It advertised a fun fair in a coastal town of Argentina. Sitting at the desk is my colleague Ricardo Boquete. The desk was mine and the drawings he handles too. There is on the desk a storyboard for an Eveready commercial I was working on at the time. I can't remember why I wasn't photographed instead of Ricardo...Probably because I looked a bit of a mess and the photographer didn't want me to ruin the studio's image.

More Poetry

Pages from "Mermaids in Preserve" poems by Tito Munoz illustrated by me. Was published in Barcelona in 1996