Carlos Freixas

Carlos Freixas Baleito studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. He had his first steps as an illustrator at the early age of 14, guided by his father Emilio Freixas. As his father's assistant, he had his first publications in Lecciondes magazine, doing 'La Revancha' and 'La Muerte de mi Doble'. Along with his father he also joined Molino publishers. Their love for comics resulted in the foundation of the publishing house Mosquito, with the aid of Angel Puigmiquel, in 1944. Carlos Freixas created his first own character at this time, 'Pistol Jim', which appeared in Gran Chicos and later Plaza El Coyote.

He was asked by Molino to join the Argentine division of the publishing house in 1947. He moved to Buenos Aires, and he did his first Argentine comics for Patoruzito. He worked a lot with Alberto Ongaro, who wrote 'Drake el Aventurero' for him. They both illustrated Hector German Oesterheld's scripts for 'El Indio Suarez'. He was also the author of 'Darío Malbrán Psicoanalista' for Aventuras magazine. The comic was strongly inspired by the atmosphere of Buenos Aires. For Patoruzito he created the boxing comic 'Tucho, de Canilla a Campeón'. He also did several detective ('Elmer King') and motor comics ('Juan Manuel Fangio'). Freixas also became a publisher in the 1950s.

Although a well-known figure in the profession, Freixas decided to leave Argentina in an attack of nostalgia in 1956. Back in Spain, he continued his collaboration with his father, but he also took on comics for Creaciones Ilustradas, an agency that exported to England. He took on a collaboration with publisher Juan Martí Pavón to publish in Chito magazine in 1975. He also began a comics adaptation of the work of Joseph Conrad Gaspar Ruiz at Bruguera. In the final stages of his career, he did comics for the USA, The Netherlands and Sweden.