Taxista Cuatroplazas

Taxista Cuatroplazas is a taxi driver character created by Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte, rendered in his signature clean-line ligne claire style. The character appeared in the influential Spanish underground anthology El Víbora, a leading venue for alternative European comics.

Debuting in 1982 within the pages of El Víbora — the landmark Spanish underground anthology that gave Bronze Age alternative comics their edgiest address — Taxista Cuatroplazas is a creation of Dutch master Joost Swarte, whose razor-clean ligne claire style made him one of the most distinctive voices in European alternative cartooning. Published under the Ediciones La Cúpula imprint across more than two decades, this character inhabits a wonderfully eclectic world, sharing pages with the likes of Ranxerox and Comisario Loperena. A modest but enduring presence in the catalog, Taxista Cuatroplazas is a genuine artifact of that fertile underground moment when European comics were rewriting their own rules.