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Yoyo (comic) Mauricio Salfate
MAURICIO SALFATE

YOYO is a restless artist, creator of remembered comics and characters.

From a very young age he was the author and porter, of practically all the comic magazines of the 90s, in sudamerica, in the midst of the military dictatorship, he made a political illustration for the opposition magazines of the period.

Art Director between 1989 and 1994 of the longest and most countercultural, of the comic magazines of the 90s. The legendary magazine TRAUKO, designing the magazine in a classic APPLE macintosh. In TRAUKO he participates from his beginnings as an author, publishing popular comics such as TIOS DE ACERO or the psychedelic adventures of TRIPY, which would become the symbolic character of the magazine.

She draws the Christmas cover of the magazine TOTEM, and publishes her comics in Chile, Spain, EEUU, India and Argentina in magazines such as FIERRO and MAKOKI, exhibits in EEUU, sudsmerica and in the SALO DEL COMIC DE BARCELONA, YOYO is selected among the 200 most illustrators relevant to the history of Chile, to participate in the exhibition 200 years of Illustration in the MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS.

From 1991 until 2001 he worked as Art Director in several publishing companies.

Although he studies THEATRAL DESIGN in the U of CHILE, being very young, he was an art director in the SALO publish, where he developed cult albums , and hundreds of illustrations, designs and editorial products full of fantasy and color, this learning in the mechanics of collectibles and the game, will be very useful later in his career as a multimedia artist, but first enter fully into the It was digital, transforming into one of the first 3D animators in the world.

For almost 20 years, he will develop award-winning children's software with the UNLIMITED publishing house, in which he directs games remembered by a whole generation such HAMSTERLAND super sales in EEUU, UK, and Nederlands and abroad, being translated into more than 9 languages.

She develops her audiovisual career by founding the production company GLOVOX, winning the CNTV fund with the innovative I-POP program, they will also develop electronic parties and multimedia performances for the electronic groups, will arrive to the big screen as art director of the first Chilean animated feature, MAMPATO Y OGU EN RAPANUI, developed the new version of the characters, this film won the GUADALAJARA FILM FESTIVAL, and nomine to the OSCAR in the category, and was edited and translated in more than 10 countries by Disney.

Currently, YOYO, in addition to retaking the comic book, for Chile, India and the United States, and the art direction of the TRAUKO magazine in its third stage, develops museological projects and design experiences, taking their imagination and creativity to new spaces, such as the museum interactive MIM, exploring the possibilities of the game and the new digital media, while touring Polynesia and South America, living in Colombia and Ecuador as of the date of this publication.