Fernando Sendra
Illustration — Fernando Sendra. Fernando Javier Sendra (born 1949 in Mar del Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine cartoonist. He is mostly known as the creator of the newspaper comic series Yo, Matías ("Me, Matías").
Also recorded as Fernando Javier Sendra
Fernando Sendra
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- Born
- 1949 · Mar del Plata.
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Occupation
- draftsperson · screenwriter · comics artist · cartoonist
- Fields
- comic
- Education
- Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza
- Languages
- Spanish
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Illustration — Fernando Sendra. Fernando Javier Sendra (born 1949 in Mar del Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine cartoonist. He is mostly known as the creator of the newspaper comic series Yo, Matías ("Me, Matías").
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He is the author of over 20 books, including 10 of the Yo, Matías series. He has two sons and two daughters. He began his career as a cartoonist in 1973 working for Siete Días. Since then, he drew cartoons for several Argentine magazines, such as Para Ti, Jocker and La Semana, as well as the newspapers Tiempo Argentino and La Razón (Buenos Aires). In 1990, his strip Prudencio began to appear in the back of Clarín, the most popular daily newspaper in Argentina. In 1993, the name of this strip is changed to Yo, Matías. He has also made a strip named Clodomiro and Capitan Chacho in the 1970s. He won the Konex Award in 1992 and 2002.
Fernando Sendra is recorded as draftsperson, screenwriter, comics artist and cartoonist.
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1949
Fernando Sendra born at Mar del Plata.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5444925: Fernando Sendra
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- “Fernando Sendra”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- VIAF cluster 159954572 for Fernando Sendra, aggregating national library name authorities.
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