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Cuto: El Pequeño Policia. page 7. Chicos #149
Ink
20 x 30 cm (7.87 x 11.81 in.)
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20X30Cm. ink on vegetal paper with color indications painted by Jesús Blasco in separate paper.
Cuto is being considered as one the greatest spanish strips and it was included in the book "1001 strips you must read before you die" being one of the only 20 spanish strips that appeared on the book.
El Pequeño Policía is the first Cuto large story (16 pages). Jesús Blasco drawing style still need to develope (he was only 21 years old), being now a combination of realistic/humoristic styles. However, you could already notice here his masterful skills.
Cuto has been considered by many spanish experts as the spanish Tintin.
In 1968 Jesús Blasco would start publishing for France (Spirou magazine) the western series "Los Guerrilleros".
Cuto is being considered as one the greatest spanish strips and it was included in the book "1001 strips you must read before you die" being one of the only 20 spanish strips that appeared on the book.
El Pequeño Policía is the first Cuto large story (16 pages). Jesús Blasco drawing style still need to develope (he was only 21 years old), being now a combination of realistic/humoristic styles. However, you could already notice here his masterful skills.
Cuto has been considered by many spanish experts as the spanish Tintin.
In 1968 Jesús Blasco would start publishing for France (Spirou magazine) the western series "Los Guerrilleros".
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About Jesús Blasco
Jesús Blasco, considered to be one of the masters of Spanish comics, made his debut in 1935, when his first illustrations were published in the Spanish version of the magazine Mickey. For Boliche magazine, he created 'Cuto' one of his best-known characters. In 1940, he started working for Chicos, in which he continued 'Cuto' and produced several adventure and science fiction comics. For the new magazine Mis Chicas, he started 'Anita Diminuta' (1941) and 'Los Tres Inseparables' (1943), while at the same time working for a number of other magazines.
In the beginning of the 1960s, Blasco started an international career with the British publishing agency Fleetway, for which he produced 'Steel Claw', 'Billy the Kid', 'Buffalo Bill', 'The Indestructible Man' and many other titles. In 1968 he started 'Los Guerilleros, from scripts by Cusso, in Spirou magazine, where he also worked on 'Paul Foran' (text by Gil). Through Studio Ortega, he was also present on the German market with contributions to the Pabel Verlag magazine Tom Berry.
At the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties, Jésus Blasco was involved, together with his brothers Alejandro and Adriano, with 'Une Bible en Bande Dessinée', (scenario by Claude Moliterni). After that, he worked on 'Tex Willer' and 'Capitan Trueno' with writer Victor Mora, with whom he also made the medieval series 'Tallafero' (1987).
