Abril Lamarque | |
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| Born | 28 August 1904 |
| Died | 25 January 1999 (aged 94) |
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Eduardo Abril Lamarque was a Cuban and American caricaturist, cartoonist, artist, designer, and magazine publisher.[1][2] He also engaged himself as a stage magician and as a music conductor. Lamarque was an innovator in the arts of typography, magazine layout and design, and caricature creation.[3][4] He was the first person in the world to create, draw, and distribute a comic strip entirely in the Spanish language.[3] Prior to this, Spanish language comic strips had only been translations of comics from other languages.[3] In the 1920s, Lamarque was considered one of the top ten greatest cartoonists living in the United States.[5] Lamarque also invented entirely new forms of art, such as his infamous radiocatures, genre forms of cartoons, and a new style of caricature he called the composacature.[5] He is considered to be a follower of the Bauhaus movement.[3]
The historian Shawn McDaniel writes that: "No other Cuban has influenced the way Americans consume popular print culture more than Lamarque did."[5] This statement places Lamarque on a high pedestal against other Cubans like Miguel Ángel Quevedo and Conrado Walter Massaguer.
Lamarque chose not to use the name 'Eduardo,' because that was also his uncle's name, and his uncle was also involved in the newspaper and magazine industry.[3]
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- ^ "Collection: Abril Lamarque Collection | Florida International University ArchivsSpace". archives.fiu.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ^ a b c d e "Biographical Sketch". Oklahoma State University Archives. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
- ^ "Abril Lamarque at Fonts in Use". Fonts in Use. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ^ a b c McDaniel, Shawn (2024). "Breaking the Graphic-Sonic Barrier: Abril Lamarque's Intermedial Lines in Cuban New York". Cuban Studies. 53 (1): 91–109. doi:10.1353/cub.2024.a930639. ISSN 1548-2464.