Carlos Casalla father of legendary cartoon character Cape Savino.
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Posted on August 08, 2013
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He was a brave officer who toured the area of the forts, unraveling adventures mounted on a skinny horse and pressing a husk cigarette between his lips. Cape Savino was, for many Argentines an endearing main character cartoon comic no longer in the country thirty-three years he was in the role, always in the hands of Charles "Sparrow" Casalla, its creator. "At that time it was fashionable a character, Sergeant Kirk, created by Italian Hugo Pratt - starts saying Casalla -. Had to make a story more local, more ours.
What better place than a civilian environment, why not a loser. So he invented an anti-hero, The Cape Savino ".
It was the publisher Columba, who rescued him from the daily diary and moved it to the pages of the magazine Tony.
So important was the strip under the direction of filmmaker Juan Carlos Abate, in 1989 was made into a film. It was filming an episode that became known as The Train, and performed by Miguel Ruiz Diaz, Aldo Barbero, Haydée Padilla and the late Arturo Maly. Differences of opinion between the director and cartoonist wrecked the project, which was originally intended for distribution in the video rental circuit and would in several chapters.
source: Galería Fotográfica de Argentina
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