![]() On the surface, it is a devastating critique of the US and its economic system (There is some justification for this kind of a reading, given the ignoble US role in Latin American affairs). ![]() Charlie observes (usually in silence) the middle class snobbery, racism and barbarity of a society that despised its poor. Charlie is a hobo, living by hitching rides on trains, taking short-term jobs and trying to make his way in a hostile, uncaring world. The eponymous hero of Charlie Moon is an adolescent growing up in the 1930s depression-era America. One of the best is their first: Charlie Moon. Trillo began his collaboration with illustrator Horacio Altuna and between they produced some truly biting political satires. One early lesson was learning to write in censorship-proof language a code to be deciphered by reading between the lines.Īrgentina has always had amazing cartoonists and the 1960s were no exception. Even if you could escape censorship today, that is not to say that a coup next week might look on your writing and/or politics differently. Political turmoil was perhaps the result of a steady economic decline. When Trillo begins to write professionally in the 60s, the political system is swinging wildly from democracy to dictatorship and back again. Bad, do you think? It’s just about to get worse. ![]() Trillo was born in the 1940s, Juan Domingo Perón was running the show. Not that I want to have a go at the Nobel’s (OK, so they never gave Jorge Luis Borges the main gong, but they can make up that insult to Argentine letters by honouring Trillo –so there!). If there was ever one comic book writer who should be a shoe-in for a Nobel Prize for Literature, it is Argentina’s Carlos Trillo.
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