Guillermo Cifré

Guillermo Cifré Figuerola, known professionally simply as Cifré, was born in 1921 in Spain and died in 1962. He was a Spanish cartoonist, illustrator, and animator, best remembered as one of the "Big Five" of the Bruguera school during the 1950s, alongside Conti, Escobar, Giner, and Peñarroya. Cifré created some of the most representative characters of that house style, including *El repórter Tribulete*, about a bumbling journalist and his overbearing boss, and *Don Furcio Buscabollos*, a hapless knight in a pseudo-medieval world who travels with a talking mare. He also drew old-bachelor types such as Cucufato Pi and Golondrino Pérez. His work is noted for its energetic, expressive linework and comedic timing, often spotlighting incompetence and petty tyranny. Cifré was the father of cartoonist Guillem Cifré. In our catalog, he is credited as artist, colorist, inker, and writer on 51 issues, with his most-credited titles being *Tio Vivo* and *Can Can*, active from 1961 to 1962.