Roberto Fontanarrosa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa (born November 26, 1944 in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina) is a cartoonist and writer. He began his career writing comic strips and later branched out into writing books with comic short stories, specially about football (soccer). November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rosario viewed from a point above the Paraná River Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the second most populous in the country, with 1,121,441 inhabitants (2001 census [1]), a position it shares with Córdoba city (the largest being Buenos Aires). ... Argentina consists of 23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), and 1 federal district (Capital Federal *). Capital Federal * Buenos Aires Catamarca Chaco Chubut Córdoba Corrientes Entre Ríos Formosa Jujuy La Pampa La Rioja Mendoza Misiones Neuquén Río Negro Salta San Juan San Luis Santa Cruz Santa Fe Santiago... Categories: Argentina geography stubs | Argentine provinces ... A cartoonist at work. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...
His better known strips are Inodoro Pereyra, featuring a gaucho and his talking dog Mendieta, and Boogie el Aceitoso. Gauchos and chinas dancing A gaucho is a South American cattle herder, the equivalent to the North American cowboy in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and (with the spelling gaúcho) southern Brazil, and formerly the Falkland Islands. ...
"El Negro" Fontanarrosa wrote three novels (Best Seller, El área 18 and La Gansada), and seven books of short comic stories (Los trenes matan a los autos, El mundo ha vivido equivocado, No sé si he sido claro, Nada del otro mundo, El mayor de mis defectos, Uno nunca sabe and La mesa de los galanes). There are also a number of book compilations of his newspapers' strips.
His work can be seen in different Latin American newspapers including Argentine Clarín, Colombian El tiempo, Uruguayan La República, and Mexican magazine Proceso. He is also a creative collaborator of the humorous-musical group Les Luthiers. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...
ClarÃn is a major newspaper in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
Les Luthiers is a comedy-musical group from Argentina, very popular also in several other Spanish speaking countries such as Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay. ...
External links
- Oficial Page (in Spanish)
- Short Biography (in Spanish)
- Biography and work (in Spanish)
- Inodoro & Boogie (in Spanish)
