Altamiro de la Cueva
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Altamiro de la Cueva is a Spanish
fictional character
and a comic series created in 1965 by
Joan Bernet Toledano and Carles Bech for a Spanish comic magazine, TBO. These stories feature funny adventures of a bunch of prehistoric cavemen. Altamiro, the protagonist, is not the strongest nor the most powerful of his tribe, but he's witty, sagacious and favours his community. Altamiro is also an artist who paints on the walls of caves. His name is a clear reference to the Spanish Cueva de Altamira
.
The characters are physically the same as modern people, but they are dressed in pieces of fur, a bit like the Flintstones
. They are all white. Altamiro has black hair and a slight beard.
As in the Flintstones, anachronisms are common. Altamiro himself develops several inventions that are certainly not prehistoric.
Spain
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fictional character
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
and a comic series created in 1965 by
Joan Bernet Toledano and Carles Bech for a Spanish comic magazine, TBO. These stories feature funny adventures of a bunch of prehistoric cavemen. Altamiro, the protagonist, is not the strongest nor the most powerful of his tribe, but he's witty, sagacious and favours his community. Altamiro is also an artist who paints on the walls of caves. His name is a clear reference to the Spanish Cueva de Altamira
Altamira (cave)
Altamira is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands....
.
The characters are physically the same as modern people, but they are dressed in pieces of fur, a bit like the Flintstones
The Flintstones
The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that screened from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Flintstones was about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. It...
. They are all white. Altamiro has black hair and a slight beard.
As in the Flintstones, anachronisms are common. Altamiro himself develops several inventions that are certainly not prehistoric.