Carlos Trillo

Carlos Trillo (May 1, 1943 – May 8, 2011) was an Argentine comic book writer, best known worldwide as the co-creator and writer of the Cybersix comics. With a long and prolific career in the Historieta medium, he is considered as one of Argentina's most respected and renowned comics writers.

Biography Born in Buenos Aires, Trillo began a prolific career as writer at the age of 20, penning his first story for Patoruzú magazine. Trillo, together with Horacio Altuna, created the strip El Loco Chávez, which appeared every day at the back of the newspaper Clarín from July 26, 1975 to November 10, 1987. After that, the strip was replaced by El Negro Blanco, which he wrote for the artist Ernesto García Seijas until September 1993.

He participated in the creation of several comics including Cybersix in 1992, with Carlos Meglia, and the erotic Clara de noche and Cicca Dum Dum series with Jordi Bernet. He has also collaborated with Alberto Breccia and Alejandro Dolina.

In 1999, his work La grande arnaque (The Big Hoax) won the Prize for Scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Trillo died suddenly in London on May 8 of 2011, after suffering a heart attack while on holiday with his wife.

Personal life Trillo was married to children's and fiction writer Ema Wolf, and they had two children.

Awards 1978: Yellow Kid e , Lucca, Italy, for Best International Author 1984: Barcelona International Comics Convention, Premio al mejor guionista del año 1996: Yellow Kid Award, Lucca, Italy, for Best International Author 1999: Angoulême Festival, Prize for Scenario, for La grande anarque (The Big Hoax)