COMIC ARTISTS from Argentina

Top 4

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Argentinean Comic Artists of all time. This list of famous Argentinean Comic Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Quino (1932 - 2020)

With an HPI of 59.72, Quino is the most famous Argentinean Comic Artist.  His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.

Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón (17 July 1932 – 30 September 2020), better known by his pen name Quino (Spanish: [ˈkino]), was an Argentine cartoonist. His comic strip Mafalda (which ran from 1964 to 1973) is popular in many parts of the Americas and Europe and has been praised for its use of social satire as a commentary on real-life issues.

2. Guillermo Mordillo (1932 - 2019)

With an HPI of 56.88, Guillermo Mordillo is the 2nd most famous Argentinean Comic Artist.  Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Guillermo Mordillo (4 August 1932 – 29 June 2019), known simply as Mordillo, was an Argentine creator of cartoons and animations and was one of the most widely published cartoonists of the 1970s. He is most famous for his humorous, colorful, surreal and wordless depictions of love, sports (in particular soccer and golf), and long-necked animals. From 1976 to 1981, Mordillo's cartoons were used by Slovenian artist Miki Muster to create Mordillo, a series of 400 short animations (300 min) that were later presented at Cannes and bought by television studios from 30 countries.

3. Héctor Germán Oesterheld (1919 - 1978)

With an HPI of 50.82, Héctor Germán Oesterheld is the 3rd most famous Argentinean Comic Artist.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Héctor Germán Oesterheld ( OST-ər-held, Spanish: [ˈeɣtoɾ xeɾˈman oˈesteɾxel]; born 23 July 1919; disappeared and presumed dead 1977), also known by the common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist, comics editor and writer of graphic novels and comics. He is widely celebrated as a master in his field and as one of the pioneering artists in modern Argentine comics. Through his comics, Oesterheld criticized the numerous military dictatorships that beleaguered the country in different periods ranging from 1955 to 1983, as well as different facets of capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, choosing a subtle criticism in his early comics during the 1950s and early 1960s, and a stronger and direct approach in his later work, after the execution of Che Guevara in 1967, and onwards from then on: in 1968 he wrote a biographical comic book of Che Guevara, which was subsequently banned and destroyed—later republished (and for the first time in complete form) in 2008—by the ruling military dictatorship self-styled as "Argentine Revolution" (1966–1973). Shortly before the start of Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976–1983), Oesterheld and his daughters had joined the Montoneros, a leftist (and former peronist) guerrilla group that immediately opposed the military junta. HGO continued to publish works in clandestine form while hidden in secret locations, but he was ultimately kidnapped and disappeared in 1977. His daughters were also arrested and disappeared, as were his sons-in-law. Only HGO's wife, Elsa Sánchez de Oesterheld, escaped the family's fate.

4. Juan Giménez (1943 - 2020)

With an HPI of 49.60, Juan Giménez is the 4th most famous Argentinean Comic Artist.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Juan Antonio Giménez López ([ˈxwaŋ xiˈmenes]; 26 November 1943 – 2 April 2020) was an Argentine comic book artist and writer, most recognized for his detailed machine-like imagery. Among his noted works include stories for the French Métal Hurlant and the Argentinian L'Eternauta magazines, and the comic series Metabarons co-developed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.