Themistocles Nazario Lobos Aguirre, better known as Themo Lobos, was a Chilean cartoonist.
15 Facts About Themo Lobos
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Themo Lobos created the characters Maximo Chambonez, Ferrilo, Nick Obre, and Alaraco, with his most famous work being Mampato, a character first developed, briefly, by Eduardo Armstrong and Oscar Vega; Lobos then wrote and illustrated his adventures from 1968 to 1978.
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Themo Lobos was the publisher of the comic-book Cucalon, which collected all his previous characters and stories.
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Themistocles Lobos was born in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile in 1928.
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Themo Lobos began drawing cartoons at age 7, at first copying other drawings, but at 12 he realized that he needed "to be original and begin to work on his own things".
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Themo Lobos' first inspirations and influences came from the children's magazine El Peneca, of which he was a great fan - the Quintin el Aventurero strip in particular.
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Themo Lobos later studied at the Chilean School of Applied Arts, where in his spare time he created his first original characters, Ferrilo the Robot and Homero the Pilot.
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Themo Lobos was later signed on to work as one of the assistants to Guido Vallejos on the famous Chilean comic-book Barrabases, where he created the characters Cicleto, Cucufato and Neclito.
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Themo Lobos was then very busy with his work for El Peneca, yet Armstrong offered him the chance to illustrate Mampato.
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Themo Lobos began drawing the series from the third chapter of Mampato's first adventure.
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Since 1973, Themo Lobos encountered problems in producing the Mampato strip.
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Themo Lobos commented on this particular storyline, explaining that he came up with it before the coup so it was not an attempt to satirize the then-current government.
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Until 1986, Themo Lobos worked with very small or foreign publishers as well as illustrating promotional material for foreign properties such as the Smurfs and Super Friends.
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In 1986, Themo Lobos gathered the funds and rights needed to create a new publication called Cucalon.
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Cucalon was very well received in Chile and ran for 48 issues until 1993, with most of Themo Lobos' material being covered during the run.