Mordillo
'HUMOUR IS THE TENDERNESS OF FEAR' Mordillo
Guillermo Mordillo was born in Buenos Aires in 1932 from Spanish immigrants. He studied design at the Journalist High School and worked for different movie studios and also as illustrator of children’s books.
At the age of 23 he left for Peru, later for New York where he worked intermittently for Paramount Pictures at the animations of “Popeye” and “Little Lulu”. He continued creating the humorous cards which were his livelihood when he arrived in Europe in 1963. He published his first cartoons in “Paris Match” and “Stern”.
He has illustrated fairytale books for children, designed advertising campaigns, created cartoons, designed greeting cards and sketched humorous pictures. Mordillo believes in the power of humour. A special quality typical of Mordillo is his love of sports. He follows them with great attention and sooner or later depicts them all, though he shows an undeniable preference for two of them: football, practiced by him with great joy as a boy, and golf, cultivated with the same satisfaction as an adult.