Marino Benejam Ferrer (Ciutadella, Menorca January 26, 1890 - Barcelona, January 19, 1975) was a Spanish cartoonist.Benejam in Tebeosfera (in Spanish)
Biography In 1897, when Benejam was seven years old, his family moved to Barcelona, where he would always live.Ramírez, Juan Antonio (12/1975). La historieta cómica de postguerra. Madrid: Editorial Cuadernos para el Diálogo, Colección Memoria y Comunicación. pages 63-64 . There he studied drawing at an academy.
He started drawing comics before the Spanish Civil War, for magazines like Pocholo and TBO, where he created in 1936 the character Melitón Pérez. Since 1941, he concentrated all his graphic activity on TBO, making thousands of comics and illustrating series such as La familia Ulises (about the daily life comedic misadventures of a middle-class family) (1944), with a script by Joaquín Buigas.Guiral, Antonio; López, Alfonso. Escrito en España. Borrel, Andrea; Guiral, Antoni, eds. TBO Edición Coleccionista. La Familia Ulises (Ediciones B, Sociedad Anónima edición). C/Mallorca, 45: Salvat, Sociedad Limitada. . He also drew since 1946 Eustaquio Morcillón y Babalí a comedic series about a hunter and his black servant in an Africa drawn in a minimalist way.
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External links Comic creator: Benejam in Lambiek Comiclopedia