Mor a Mallorca el dibuixant argentí Guillemo Mordillo a 86 anys
June 30, 2019 3:46 PM   Subscribe

Guillermo Mordillo, 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, and wordless depictions of love, sports (in particular soccer and golf), and long-necked animals. Mordillo died Sunday, age 86, in Majorca, Spain [in Catalan].
posted by chavenet (14 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
 
He was a mainstay in those hardcover international cartoon annuals that the public library would get, that were full of cartoons from Punch and its counterparts in Europe. I imagine they were all from the seventies but the libraries were holding onto them well into the eighties, for which my teenaged self was grateful.
posted by ardgedee at 4:03 PM on June 30, 2019 [4 favorites]


I... had a book of these? Maybe picked up on a trip to Europe during the 70s?
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posted by the sobsister at 6:22 PM on June 30, 2019


Turkey Television (think of it as kind of like Night Flights for kids, on Nickeloeon) used to have animations of his work in heavy rotation, so people who watched Nick growing up and are of a certain age may find these unexpectedly familiar.
posted by JHarris at 8:33 PM on June 30, 2019 [3 favorites]


Oh. I loved him as a teen and had a book of his work for a long time. Haven’t thought of him since an ex swiped the book in the early 90s, not sure why. That’s sad, but he lived well and left a great legacy. RIP.
posted by gemmy at 2:30 AM on July 1, 2019 [1 favorite]


Guillermo Mordillo: Legendary cartoonist dies in Mallorca [Obit in English ]
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posted by acb at 5:30 AM on July 1, 2019


I found a couple of compilations of Mordillo shorts on YouTube a few weeks back, here: 1 - 2
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