Alberto Salinas (by Paolo Telloli)

Last November 27th, he was cleaning a gun, Alberto Salinas died.

Alberto Cesar Salinas was born in Buenos Aires November 1st 1932, he had followed his father's steps, the famous designer José Luis Salinas, the unforgettable author of Cisco Kid. Influenced by the fatherly line, at the 52 he carries out on the Lanús's text the series Capiango in the magazine “Superman” and in 1953 a series of the cartoon of historical type for the Editorial Columba.
His work, precise and clean, got the attention of big present publishers in the world market among them, Fleetway in London. He collaborated in 1961, with the Publisher Eurostudio of Piero Dami for which carried out some histories of cartoons of historical type: Spartaco, the battle of Lepanto, The site of Malt (published in the Messenger of the Small ones) and Rurik the Viking (six episodes), all the histories of 8 pages also published in foreign countries.
He illustrated historical characters and of the world literature in “the World of Marvel”. In the years 70 published, for the editions San Pablo, a series of illustrations to insert in “the paper of The Children Marvel”. For the Portuguese magazine “Juornal of Cuto” that related the history of Moira the slave of Rome, 196 episodes were published, from the year 71 to 73. Always in that year he began on an intense collaboration with the Editions Lanzi that, developed with the fotoromanzi publication, they had introduced in the market two new titles to the cartoons, Lanciostory and Skorpio. Simply in Skorpio, the Argentine author, gives life to a series of cartoons of the unforgettable comic as the Black Continent in 1977 and in the 1978 Foreign Legion with Julio Alfredo Grassi's texts and, in this last series, with the collaboration of Carlos Pedrazzini 's ' sketches in the last episodes.
In 1981, with Robin Wood's texts, created the most famous character: Dago. With the same writer he produced another series and episodes: Chaco, The Borgias, The siblings of the Filibusta and Dracula the splendid one, published then in two volumes where this character's detailed profile goes back between the legend and the historical reality.
His last work, with Ricardo Ferrari's texts, is the series of the dark Centuries, are published at the present time.

In Rome, in the occasion of a comics exhibition, he received the Yellow Kid for his fifty three years of work. Lately Salinas have abandoning the cartoons for dedicated to the painting.

Extracted of web page: http://www.inkonline.info/salinas.htm in homage to his death on November 27 2004, translated of Italian