Carlos Nine, Argentine illustrator, comics artist and screenwriter, Died at 72

  Artists, Writer

Carlos Nine was born on February 21, 1944, and died on July 16, 2016.

He was an Argentinian cartoonist, painter, and sculptor.

He drew several covers for the magazine Humor, directed by his colleague Andrés Cascioli, from 1983 to 1990

Carlos made illustrations for the magazines Fierro, L’Écho des Savanes, Il Grifo, Co & Co, Notícias and for the American, Argentine and Italian editions of Playboy.

Nine drawings appeared regularly in the daily newspapers Clarín and Le Monde.

He exhited the first editions of the Chronicles of the Grey Angel and The book of the ghost, of Alejandro Doline. In France edited, among others, the books Crimes and Punishments (1991) and Fantagas (1995), with texts and own drawings.

During 2005, he made an adaptation of the chapter 16 of the first part of Don Quijote in the collective work Lanza en astillero.

During 2012, he received the Platinum Konex Award as best illustrator of the decade in Argentina.

Carlos Nine passed away at 72 years old.