September 28, 2009
Carlos Roume, 1923-2009
Carlos Roume, the talented Argentinian artist whose work with Hector Oesterheld is held in particular high regard,
died last week. Although he had made public appearances over the last five years according to documentation found through the eternautas yahoo mailing list, Roume was well into his eighties.
Like many of the best South American cartoonists, Roume worked in other fields and bounced back and forth between the South American and European art markets in his flush period. Although he was a published illustrator in his early 20s and was well-ensconced in advertising by his mid-20s, his first comics work can be traced to the serial "Lapacho Juan" in the Argentinian magazine
Patoruzito in I believe. He found a niche as an adapter of great adventure novels such as
Moby Dick, and by the early years of the next decade received a co-creator credit for
Sabu, one of many
Tarzan-like adventure serials popular at the time. In the late 1950s, Roume began collaborating with Hector Oesterheld and working for his magazine
Hora Cero. Their collaborations included
Nahuel Barros and
Tipp Kenya.
Roume enjoyed a parallel career as an artist for Fleetway in the UK, contributing art to serials such as
Dick Daring (in
Thriller Picture Library),
Kit Carson (in
Cowboy Picture Library), and
Rodney Stone (in
Ranger and others). He also later found a home in the Italian market through seminal comics-publishing kid publication
Il Corriere dei Piccoli in such features as
Hayawatha and
Alazzan. I believe he later moved back into illustration.
A full episode of
Nahuel Barros was reprinted by Domingos Isabelino
here; the critic wrote about the artist
here. There is a magnificent smattering of his published material available at
this blog focusing I believe on Spanish-language story comics.
as with all obituaries that involve looking at words not in English, any help in adjusting any of the above is appreciated
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