José Massaroli

Who is José Massaroli?

José María Massaroli is an Argentine comic artist, born in the Ramallo Partido, Buenos Aires Province.

He studied arts at the Instituto Ida with Angel Borisoff, Narciso Bayón, and Pablo Pereyra. In 1973, he published his first comic book stories in the Manuel García Ferré's magazines: Hijitus and Larguirucho. He learned the finer points of the profession from Lito Fernández. In 1975, he commenced drawing realistic stories for the Columba Publishing house: Haakon and Tres X La Ley, and Dennis Martin. Then he worked for others publishing houses such as: Record Publishing, Universo Publishing and D.C. Thomson.

He switched to humour in 1981 and cooperated with Operación Ja Ja and Rico Tipo. In 1982, He created Orquídeo Maidana for the Caras y Caretas magazine. In 1983, he created a series of biographies for the daily newspaper La Voz of Juan Moreira, Manuel Dorrego, Facundo Quiroga and Chacho Peñaloza.