Anita Diminuta
Encyclopedia
Anita Diminuta is a comics
character created in 1941 by Jesús Blasco
for the feminine magazine Mis Chicas, where it held the forefront throughout the decade. In the stories creation, his brothers also collaborated, constituting the Factoría Blasco.
In 1974, the comic strip was published in a book. Also, a doll based in the character was released.
's Skippy
, the character became a globe trotting and time-travelling boy adventurer, casually handling firearms and hot wiring sports cars, and romancing adult women.
Blasco's art veered from cute animal cartoons to the shadow play realism of Milton Caniff
and Noel Sickles
. He created strips for various audiences, and in 1941, he started working on Anita Diminuta, a girl strip.
Her partners were Soldadito (a tin soldier
, lame, evidently incarnation of the Steadfast Tin Soldier
, from the Hans Christian Andersen
tales), Pet Mate or Mateo, a teddy bear, and Del Bosco, a curious dwarfish.
Anita fought with the two antagonists: the Carraspia Witch and the Caralampio Wizard.
She lived in a cottage with her grandmother, and with Mateo.
and William Heath Robinson.
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
character created in 1941 by Jesús Blasco
Jesús Blasco
Jesús Blasco was a Spanish author and artist of comic books, whose career covered most of the conventional history of comic strips. He worked extensively in British comics in the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:...
for the feminine magazine Mis Chicas, where it held the forefront throughout the decade. In the stories creation, his brothers also collaborated, constituting the Factoría Blasco.
In 1974, the comic strip was published in a book. Also, a doll based in the character was released.
Author
Blasco debuted in 1935 in the Spanish magazine Mickey, at the age of fifteen. For the magazine Boliche, however, he created the series and character named Cuto (Cutter). Originally a strip in the vein of Percy CrosbyPercy Crosby
Percy Leo Crosby was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his popular comic strip Skippy. Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp...
's Skippy
Skippy (comic strip)
Skippy was an American comic strip written and drawn by Percy Crosby that was published from 1923 to 1945. A highly popular, acclaimed and influential feature about rambunctious fifth-grader Skippy Skinner, his friends and his enemies, it was adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show. It was...
, the character became a globe trotting and time-travelling boy adventurer, casually handling firearms and hot wiring sports cars, and romancing adult women.
Blasco's art veered from cute animal cartoons to the shadow play realism of Milton Caniff
Milton Caniff
Milton Arthur Paul Caniff was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.-Biography:...
and Noel Sickles
Noel Sickles
Noel Douglas Sickles was an American commercial illustrator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Scorchy Smith....
. He created strips for various audiences, and in 1941, he started working on Anita Diminuta, a girl strip.
Description
Anita Diminuta was a blonde and orphan girl with braids that faced numberless hazards and horrible enemies like witches, wizards, octopuses and other dark animals.Her partners were Soldadito (a tin soldier
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
"The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier's love for a paper ballerina. After several adventures, the tin soldier perishes in a fire with the ballerina. The tale was first published in Copenhagen by C.A...
, lame, evidently incarnation of the Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
"The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier's love for a paper ballerina. After several adventures, the tin soldier perishes in a fire with the ballerina. The tale was first published in Copenhagen by C.A...
, from the Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...
tales), Pet Mate or Mateo, a teddy bear, and Del Bosco, a curious dwarfish.
Anita fought with the two antagonists: the Carraspia Witch and the Caralampio Wizard.
She lived in a cottage with her grandmother, and with Mateo.
Style
Its authors were inspired in the popular imagery, specially in the childish tales. For Salvador Vázquez de Parga, its graphism reflects influences from Arthur RackhamArthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham was an English book illustrator.-Biography:Rackham was born in London as one of 12 children. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art.In 1892 he left his job and started working for The...
and William Heath Robinson.