José Peñarroya


José Peñarroya Peñarroya was a Spanish cartoonist of the Bruguera School, creator of famous characters such as Don Pío or Gordito Relleno. He also was, alongside Cifré, the "official" cover artist of many of the publications of the house, until well into the 1960s. As a result, he is considered one of the "Big Five" of that editorial of the 1950s, along with Conti, Escobar, Giner and Cifré.

Biography

During the Spanish Civil War he was a combatant in the republican army.
After the war he left his job as an accountant for the study Estudios Chamartín, where he participated in the creation of several short films. In 1947 he began collaborating with Editorial Bruguera, for which he created Don Pío, Calixto, Gordito Relleno and Don Berrinche. He was involved in several magazines of the publisher, especially Pulgarcito and El DDT.
At this time, he worked with his friends Cifré and Escobar in a rented studio. They liked to catch red pine mushrooms in autumn and joke about it among themselves.
In 1957, together with these and other cartoonist of Bruguera, Carlos Conti and Eugenio Giner, he created an independent company that began publishing a new journal, Tío Vivo, keeping the typical schemes of Bruguera magazines. For this magazine, Peñarroya draw new characters, such as La familia Pi After the economic failure of Tío Vivo, he returned to Bruguera, for which continued creating characters, such as Floripondia Piripí, Pepe, el hincha, Pitagorín and Rudesindo el bucanero. He also created new series for the magazine "Tele Chico".

Style

Peñarroya graphic style evolved over the years toward greater statism, abandoning kinetic curves and symbols. An author of a later generation, Joan March, described Peñarroya humor as more subtle, but also more poetic than other authors of Bruguera.

Work


YearsTitleKindPublisher
1947Don PíoSeriesPulgarcito, Super Pulgarcito, etc.
1947El mundo se ríeCollective seriesPulgarcito
1947CalixtoSeriesPulgarcito
1948Gordito RellenoSeriesPulgarcito
1948Atleto, el DeportistaSeriesPulgarcito
1948LoquilandiaSeries with Cifré and EscobarEl Campeón
1948Don BerrincheSerieEl Campeón, Pulgarcito, El DDT, etc.
1949Don PíoMonographyBruguera: Magos del Lápiz
1950CalixtoMonographyBruguera: Magos de la Risa
1957La Familia PíSeriesTío Vivo
1957NeronínSeriesDon José
1958Floripondia Piripí, se pirra por dar el síSeriesSissi
1962Pepe, el HinchaSeriesTío Vivo
1963Boliche y ChapineteSeriesTele Chico
1963Perucho y ChelesSeriesTele Chico
1966PitagorínSeriesPulgarcito
1966Rudesindo, el Bucanero. Un tipo de cuerpo enteroSeriesEl Capitán Trueno Extra
1971DraculinoSeriesTerror Fantastic