The Guillermo Mordillo Books - part 1

I am a fan of Guillermo Mordillo and I know many of our readers are Mordillo fans too. There are Mordillo books published in many countries: from Germany and France to Iran, China etc.
But how do all those funny books look like? What was the first real Mordillo book ever published? Where to find Mordillo books? In a series of articles to come, I hope, with your help, to make a list of all the Mordillo cartoonbooks ever published. I'll put a picture of the books online and make cartoonbook files of them if I have the information I need.

How to help? Mail a cover picture of your Mordillo book(s) to ecc.cartoonbooks@gmail.com if the book isn't mentioned in our Mordillo Book List

Click to see a list of all Mordillo book pictures we have for the moment. Later on I'll sort the book pictures by publication date.

See Mordillo Cartoonbook files for detailed information about the Mordillo books.

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Mordillo

I was in the ECC library yesterday. I added some Mordillo books to the Mordillo book list on Picasa.
One book is the "Mordillo Jubiläumsbuch" (1997). It's a limited edition. Only 1000 books were printed and 700 were signed by Mordillo himself. The ECC library owns nr. 51.




More information:
Mordillo Books part1
Mordillo Boosk part2
All articles with Mordillo references on this blog

Mordillo versus the city of Zhuzhou

Last week I saw this picture in the newspaper. It's in the city of Zhuzhou in China and it made me think immediately at some of Mordillo's cartoons with skyscraper and roof top scenery.

I looked in this three Mordillo books, and I found

some nice cartoons:

Mordillo, many many  years ago

Burj al Arab, some time ago...

Mordillo, many many  years ago

Burj al Arab, some time ago...

The conclusion is that the ideas in the cartoons of Mordillo weren't as crazy as we might think. What to think about urban farming? On the internet I've found many pictures of agriculture on roof tops and rooftop farms.
Yes,  Mordillo was predicting the future in his cartoons.

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Mordillo on our blog.

The Guillermo Mordillo Books - part 2

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It took a bit of time, but the Mordillo Cartoonbook files now are available.
Every file provides information about the book such as title, publication year, ISBN, number of pages, number of cartoons, dimensions, weight, ...
The information can be helpful to find a book on the web, buy it, and add it to your cartoonbook collection. Happy bidding!

Read more:
The Guillermo Mordillo Books Part 1
Mordillo book covers
Mordillo cartoonbook files (detailed info on most Mordillo books)
Mordillo publications (official Mordillo website)
Other cartoon books you should know

Mordillo Collector's Item from Iran

One of the cartoon books I cherish a lot is this Mordillo book, published by the House of Cartoon in Tehran (Iran, 2000?). Although I do not understand Persian, I find the combination between the cartoons and the beautiful Persian print testifies of an exceptional beauty.

Let's have a look:

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Van Mordillo cartoonbook files

Mordillo YouTube channel

I recommend all Mordillo fans to visit the brand new Official Mordillo Channel on YouTube with great animated cartoons from the master.



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Official Mordillo website (recommended)
search for Mordillo on this blog

Football cartoon books

To be honest: I know almost nothing about football (soccer)  players, their clubs  and the competitions they play in. I know the rules of the game and it's only when the World Cup is played that I become an addict of the game.

Football cartoons are interesting me more. I saw on TV the UEFA Europa League is on now and I thought it's the moment to present some  football cartoon books you might enjoy.

In 'le foot' (football) by Mordillo, the legendary football player Pelé writes in the introduction: "...today I realise that football can be a source of humor..." The cartoons below prove this statement.

Mordillo 'Le Foot' (Glénat,  isbn 2-7234-3814-7, 2002):

Mordillo 'Le Foot' (Vents d'Ouest, isbn 2-8696-7591-7, 1997)

Faszinatiion Fussball - Cartoon und Karikatur - Stuttgart Award 2006  (Fifa World Cup Germany 2006)

Hat Trick - Zagreb 1998 - the 4th Biennal Internatioal cartoon exhibition:

Happy Valentine's Day with Mordillo

Happy Valentine's Day with some cartoons by the great Mordillo.

These cartoons were published in "Voor Echtgenoten" (Dutch edition) in 1996 by Mondria. The French edition was named "Les Mariés" . It's a little book of 18 x 12,5 cm and 48 pages with only 22 cartoons about marriage and love. The cartoons are printed on the right pages, on the left pages are quotes by Samuel Johnson, Goethe, Balzac, Dickens etc.

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La Table - The Table

Most of us have a Christmas family feast and a Christmas dinner. If you aren't really a cook or a chef you can enjoy the cartoons in "La Table" (1985) one of these days.

La Table is a publication of HA, the French "Humoristes Associés": Avoine, Barbe, Blachon, Bridenne, Lacroix, Laville, Loup, Mordillo, Mose, Napo, Nicoulaud, Sabatier, Serre, Siné, Soulas, Trez. Preface by Jacques Bens and Menu by Pierre Troisgros.

The 'humoristes associés' HA!

You can try this menu I found in the book:

Amuse-gueule pour MORDILLO à l'apéritif
Flocons d'AVOINE en GRANGER à la BARBE de capucin
Filets de LOUP de LACROIX-Valmer
MOSE-aïque de légumes cal-SINE
Re-BLACHON fermier et BRIE-DENNE affiné
Reine de SABATIER aux fruits de SERRE
NAPO de son NICOULAUD de framboises.
...

Take a look in the kitchen! This poster is called 'Chaos in the kitchen'. Quite obvious.

You can buy this famous cartoon
by Blachon as a poster.

Pour Santa Claus! (Roger Blachon)
and Maffia dinner (Sabatier)

The bill please! (by Soulas)

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A copy of this book on an eBay -auction (end Déc 25!)

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