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ALTUNA, Horacio

Horacio Altuna is a luminous self-taught argentinian comic book artist born in Cordoba in 1941. He began a longtime collaboration with the publishing house Colomba in Buenos Aires in 1967 but, with the hard political context in the country, like some of his peers opened his horizons and started working also for english publishing houses like Fleetway. At that time, copyright and writer/artist credits respect weren't common practice within these publishing companies, but in 1975, he created the series 'El Loco Chavez' with the writer Carlos Trillo in the argentinian daily Clarin which got a huge success and was subsequently published in Spain and France (Grand reporter, Glénat).
Amongst the b&w comic series created by Altuna in Argentina at that time and fortunately translated and edited in France, 'Ficcionario' and 'New-York Blues' can be also mentioned (respectively in Ère comprimée and Thriller, Campus Ed.).

But the unsustainable repression and civil war situation in his country led him to emigrate in Spain in 1982.
At that time, he creates under his name multiple political fiction stories and experiments with colors, specializing somewhat in short erotic stories, which were published in most of the European editions of Playboy magazine.

I confess having personally discovered Altuna's work in my teens within his short stories published in Playboy magazine... and was amazed. Flabbergasted both by the realism and utter aesthetics of his lines onto female anatomy, I was truly stuck as well by the remarkable immersive way he "computed" his scenes' layouts and viewpoints. The true naturalness of his caracters' expressions (body and facial languages) is also something that stays constant (and, btw, fairly recognizable) in his whole oeuvre.
Therewith, Altuna has a unique know-how : anytime, throughout the massive profusion of his published erotic stories, even the moments he proposes (a totally magnificient way!) extremely explicit situations, doing so he eludes any kind of vulgarity.
An art- and storytelling- master.
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There are 5 Pieces of Art In This Gallery.    

Painters At Work, Playboy illustration by Horacio Altuna 1466 Views, 12 Comments	Outdoor Ice-Skating Fun, Playboy illustration by Horacio Altuna 986 Views	Band Aid Healing, Playboy illustration by Horacio Altuna 1947 Views
At The Car Workshop, Playboy illustration by Horacio Altuna 1022 Views	Playboy prelims (x7) by Horacio Altuna 325 Views

There are 5 Pieces of Art In This Gallery.    

Artists Featured (within this Gallery) Horacio Altuna Horacio Altuna

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