texts taken from a note published in the journal Crisis No. 53, 80's:
"I started laburar in a bookstore. Drew blades school . We painted such as "The Battle of San Lorenzo", "Hygiene", "Savings", "Oxygen." Later I went to draw borders and labels for Blank Anthony home. Hence comes the love for me watermarks and the craze for the frames, and the presentation "didactic" in songs like "The Pool" or "Karate" is due to my time blades school. "
" You're always making something types. For example if I had not been when I started Lino Palacio, may now be doing something else. I think one of the greatest artists here there was Divito. It is true that I was a bit tied to the traditional formalities, but when he broke with the "style Quinterno," and found their own language was the great interpreter of Buenos Aires. "
" My inclination for painting began then. I had received from Professor of Fine Arts and studied with Centurion, who had been teaching at the school. I also studied with Petorutti. It seems that was in need of some mangoes and taught in a house in Ponds and Callao. I remember that we did make efforts rare. We did draw as saying they did in the Renaissance: a long stick you and you tied a cinder, with this tool, you had to copy a still life. It was difficult, but it seems that the picture comes out cooler. Sort of like drawing with the left. I think Leonardo said that "the right is too wise."
"Shortly before the magazine appeared in 1942 Cascabel. There I had my first contact with the cartoons of Steinberg. Single line, without detail. See that was great, can hardly forget. I realized that what makes a joke, for fun, could be published. Overcoming my shyness I took my work to Cascabel. There were some jokes that now would fear anyone, but it seems they liked it the first of April 1942, I published one. "
" There I began to do "Caesar Brutus." Carlos Warnes what I wrote and illustrated. Along with Big INBENTA Warnes made this world, the Medicinal Butoski Illustrated (n. of a.: This is later) and probably a thousand other things that I can not remember. The truth is that I'm interested in painting, and jokes were a drudge. "
Home, page 3 and centerfold of the first of the 5 (?) notebooks "Medisinal Brutoski Illustrated, edited by C. Dupont & Co. in 1954.
" By looking at those today Warnes my work with me are of a hard ... so burdened. It was very primitive, like everything begins. After drawing more than I was, cleaning the drawing. But still, as yet, uncertain. Each little picture cost me a lot. The tracing, at least two or three times. "Aside: Caloi Oski says taught him to" give ball to the spontaneity of the sketches (once I found tracing, in his study, I asked if they he was ashamed, and showed me what identical: one of his own sketches) "
text of" The discover of America, which includes tributes from Fontanarrosa, Caloi, Sabat, Sendra and Rep.
"A whole long day and went to Peru. Do not know why I chose it. In '43 it was installed in Cuzco. I studied Archaeology and Folklore at the University. I kept sending my cartoons to Buenos Aires. There was things having to do with surrealism. The Cuzco had no idea it was. Peru at the time was another world. I took hundreds of photographs which he later sold in Vienna. In addition to photographs, I drew this reality. From that time , 1944, "La banda music." These drawings, I explained in a cinema. Did a priest friend with a group of kids at school and the kids were busy everything. Believed they could carry, they were a gift, that I ... "
Home and three pages of Indian history Vera" editing Manufacturing 1968 by General Publishing Company, sa
"In Buenos Aires appeared Rico Tipo. For this magazine, more than I remember from the humor that were published in Argentina-I "Amarroto." Was based on an uncle of mine who was commissioner. Type Rico used nationalism, something Buenos Aires. It was fucked in the sense that shit Laughing provinces, neighboring countries "
"Working on the most important magazines in the country gave me the opportunity to give me some tastes. Traveled the country, made presentations."
"In '46 I went to Chile. Since then I went and came constantly, until shortly before the fall of Allende. I have a special affection for Chile. I worked for the government of Allende. I illustrated a series of booklets with the subject of sugar. "
"In 48 I went to Italy, I worked in many newspapers and magazines from the first time because my work is known. Now, in Italy there are some magazines that are barbaric. In one of those who collaborated , called Il Male, police seized several times immoral, but in reality are far from immorality. I would say they are rude. There does not appear the thing in disguise. The poop is poop and no way around it. There I go dead I have to adapt, look ... I worked a lot on advertising. I made the Zodiac, a "map of the wines of Italy," The medical charts of Salerno " the medical school that lasted until Napoleon. "(n. of a.: In Il Male shares the bill, for example, with the great addict Andrea Pazienza)
Home and some openings for Medical Tables Salerno, published by Lumen in 1985.
The drawings in this work were published in 1970 by the laboratory Serono, Rome.
The drawings in this work were published in 1970 by the laboratory Serono, Rome.
"That does not mean you have made twine . I always lived a Spartan austerity. I can drink champagne from time to time, which I like. One does not need much to live ... well with my way of doing business is difficult to win well.
I can not make that set of relationships. It is difficult to go to art gallery, presentations, because one is told that something could happen there, you can leave some laburo. You have to be a courtesan, and incarnate with the minister. Cuesta humiliation be cool, a emputecimento. "
" To laburar need champagne. Champagne is expensive. I need money to buy champagne and have money I need laburar. But I need to drink champagne laburar ... then I can not laburar. "
" Humor is eternal jokes, silliness, do not last. The humor that appears in the press gives popularity to the designers and you get to feel important, known by everyone. The desire to make this work responds to a state in which we all go and has to do with ego, with fame. But it happens that treating current issues, humor becomes ephemeral, it ages, loses meaning, "
" What makes one is to survive the distress. Is the problem of loneliness. It is the anguish that has no one more than his own solitude. "
and back cover of Oski's notebooks, edited by the author.
Finally a quote from Perich, a large English-language magazine humorist quail: "Oski published in our country (Spain) for several years in a magazine somewhere between the comic and humor magazine called" DDT " . There were many letters asking why Oski not learn to draw. "