Dario Adanti
Biography

(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971), argentine cartoonist,  illustrator, animator, and script writer that renewed graphic humour and spanish comics during the ´90s.
He has lived in Madrid for more than 12 years, where he moved in 1996 after publishing in Argentina for many years in magazines and newsparers such as Pagina 12, Clarin, Humor magazzine, and many more.
While living in Argentina, and as a cooperative project with a group of young cartoonists he edited “Suelteme” a humour magazine.
In 1997 he travelled to USA and while in New York he made vignettes and illustrations for The New York times, PC magazine, and collaborated with MTV (Miami) for a long time. For MTV he made two serials: Vacalactica and Elvis Christ, that became cult serials, shown through MTV USA, MTV Asia, MTV Europe and Latin America.
He became known in the spanish market through Calavera comes back home, and The tattooed Whale. Then he started working for El Jueves (historical humor magazine that first appeared during Franquism years, and that nowadays is the best known and most sold magazine). His characters and comics have appeared in the said magazine in a weekly basis since 1998. It was through that magazine that he not only became well known in Spain but that he has been considered as the renewer of comic strips of the last years.
He has published in, and illustrates newspapers like: El Pais, La Vanguardia, El Mundo, Diario Público, Revista Man, Interview, Rolling Stones, etc.
He has published 7 comic strips books:  La Ballena Tatuada, Calavera vuelve a Casa, La Cosa Pringosa 1 and  2, Kolmillo Blanko Cerebro Polar, El Calavera “Estar muerto es tonto”, and “El Cabeza de Tostadora en: El Terror Dentro”, and  3 books with a compilation of his illustrations for articles written by Jordi Costa, journalist and critic, joint work weekly published  in El País, Vida Mostrenca, Tod Slonstz, Montruos Modernos (the book hasa prologue by Guillermo del Toro).
His cartoons have appeared on TV channels such as: Canal +, Nickelodeon International, Cartoon Network, TNT, etc.
“Vacalactica” and “Elvis Christ” have been awarded with the BBVA of “Animation in house” USA, and they have appeared in the following annuaries:
Print nº LIII:IV (American Graphic Desinge Magazine” (1999)

Motion Graphic (The best of graphic designe for television and cinema) (2001)

On Aire: The Visual Messages and Global Lenguaje (the best of MTV animation) (2007)

His comic strips have also appeared in:

Comic 2000 (La’ asossiassio, France, 2000)

Strepazin (comic Magazine from Belgium, 2005)

 

Nowadays, he has a weekly page in El Jueves magazine (Spain), illustrates articles for various important spanish newspapers and magazines, and he is the script writer for Space Ghost COAST to COAST (Spain), and Adult Swim (Spain)