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Gaturro 1 (Spanish Edition)

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This book compiles a lot of Gaturro's cartoons. The cartoonist that draws Gaturro (the cat on the front cover of the book) is called "Nik", and is quite well known in Argentina, his country.

Nik works for "La Nación" (www.lanacion.com.ar), one of Argentina's more important newspapers, and is also well known for the fact that his political cartoons often offer accurate (and acid) comments regarding Argentina's political scene.

As a matter of fact, Gaturro started to appear in Nik's "political cartoons", when he took notice of a new capilar implant in the head of president Menem, and thus started to draw a cat on his head (in Argentina, "gato"(cat)is a familiar and ironic name for a capilar implant). The cat slowly began to take protagonism, with little sharp comments on whatever was happening in the political scene, and finally got a cartoon of his own.

The cartoons are in spanish, but the language is quite simple, so if you are curious enough and cannot speak the language, you'll be able to manage (provided you have a good dictionary). Gaturro is amusing and clever, sometimes absurd but always entertaining. Read this book and you'll have lots of fun :)