K-Hito was the

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of Ricardo García López (1890–1984), Spanish humorist,

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critic, film producer, and magazine publisher. Considered part of the

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, he was the founder and director of four magazines, in the pages of which he created several characters, such as ''

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'', ''Macaco'', ''Currinche'', and ''Don Turulato''. He was born in

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, Jaén Province in 1890, and grew up in

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. He began drawing at the age of four.Yayyan, la separata cultural de Jaén·on·line
/ref> At Alicante, he studied at the Parrilla academy and worked in a

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. In 1907, he moved to

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, where he began to collaborate in humor magazines and offered the first exposition of his work in 1912 in the Círculo de Bellas Artes. He subsequently founded the magazine ''Gutiérrez'', precursor to ''

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''. He served as the editor of the children's magazines ''Macaco'' and ''Macaquete''. ''Macaco'', the name of both the title character and the magazine that featured it, was started in 1928. However, it folded and the Macaco comic strip was transferred to ''Macaquete''.Comic creator: K-Hito (Ricardo Garcia Lopez)
/ref> In the process of the transfer, Macaco was featured in a continuity strip rather than in a gag strip. He also contributed to ''Gracia y Justicia'', a periodical critical of Azaña,

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of the

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. He also contributed to ''Le Journal'', '' Pinocho'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''El Debate'', ''Ya'', ''Informaciones'', ''Ahora''. He became famous through his caricatures in the newspaper known as ''El Debate''. With

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and

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, he founded the ''Sociedad Española de Dibujos Animados'' (''SEDA'') in 1932. Most of the films produced by SEDA have been lost, although there exist some copies of the film "Falsa noticia de fútbol". During the

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, he lived in Valencia, and worked there as a professor of calligraphy at the ''Academia Comercial Morales''. He worked under his real name; using his pseudonym was dangerous, as he had published under it a number of articles lampooning the ''milicianos'', or anti-fascist militias. In 1940, he founded the weekly magazine ''Dígame'', serving as its editor. Collaborating with him at ''Dígame'' and ''Gutiérrez'' were

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and (Antonio Lara de Gavilán). He also collaborated with

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. K-Hito also worked as a bullfighting critic (as a boy he had wanted to be a

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), and his work appeared in bullfighting chronicles (''crónicas taurinas''). He is credited with reconciling two bitter enemies, the bullfighters

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and

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, who at K-Hito's instigation, hugged one another in the cartoonist's natal town of Villanueva del Arzobispo. En 1949, Villanueva del Arzobispo named him an Adoptive Son and named a street after him. He died at

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Filmography

:''He was writer and director for all the films below'': *''Francisca, la mujer fatal'' (1934) *''En los pasillos del congreso'' (1932) *''Falsa noticia de fútbol'' (1932) *''El Rata primero'' (1932) *''La Vampiresa Morros de Fresa'' (1932)

Books

*''Carmen y Raphael'' (1940) *''“Manolete” ya se ha muerto'' *''Muerto está que yo lo vi'' (1947) *''Yo, García (una vida vulgar)'' (1948) *''¡Hasta luego!'' (1950) *''Anda que te anda'' (1954) *''El álbum de K-Hito'' (1973)

References

External links

Comic encyclopedia: K-Hito
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Photograph of K-Hito
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Filmography

Books

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Further reading

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