Carlos Nine (21 February 1944 – 16 July 2016) was an
Argentine
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cartoonist, painter, and sculptor.
Biography
Between 1983 and 1990 Nine drew several covers for the magazine ''Humor'', directed by his colleague Andrés Cascioli.
He made illustrations for the magazines '' Fierro'', ''
L'Écho des Savanes
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'', ''Il Grifo'', Co & Co, '' Notícias'' and for the American, Argentine and Italian editions of ''
Playboy
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''. His drawings appeared regularly in the daily newspapers Clarín and ''
Le Monde
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.'' Nine illustrated the first editions of the ''Chronicles of the Grey Angel'' and ''The book of the ghost'', of
Alejandro Dolina
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edited, among others, the books ''Crimes and Punishments'' (1991) and ''Fantagas'' (1995), with texts and own drawings.
In 2005 ''he made'' an adaptation of the chapter 16 of the first part of Don Quijote in the collective work'' Lanza en astillero.''
In 2012 Carlos Nine received the Platinum
Konex Award
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History and purpose
Konex Awards are granted by the Konex Foundation, created in 1980 in Argentina. The p ...
Donjon
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Monsters 8 Heartbreaker, written by
Lewis Trondheim
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and
Joann Sfar
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Life and career
Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well know ...
.
Books
Text and drawings
* ''Meutres et chatiments'' (1991).
* ''Fantagas'' (1995).
* ''Keko el mago'' (1996).
* ''Le canard qui aimait les poules'' (1999).
* ''Oh merde, les lapins!'' (2002).
* ''Gesta Dei'' (2003).
* ''It was a Dark & Silly night'' (2003).
* ''Prints of the west'' (2004).
* ''Siboney (Fantagas 2)'' (2008).
* ''Keko Le Magicien'' (2009).
* ''Rapport visuel sur la ville de Buenos Aires et ses environs'' (2014).
* ''Tropikal Mambo'' (2016).
* ''Fantagas: L'intégrale'' (2016).
* ''Buster Mix'' (2020).
Illustration only
* ''Crónicas del Ángel Gris'' (1988), by
Alejandro Dolina
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* ''L'amirale des mers du Sud'' (2019), with Jorge Zentner.