He began Selecciones Ilustradas in cooperation with Antonio Ayné Arnau of Ediciones Toray in 1953. Toutain was the first to step into this line of work, after noticing the success and more financial rewarding work his friend Francisco Hidalgo had in Paris, France.
To keep the local artists active, several agencies were launched in Barcelona and other cities to provide artwork to foreign publishers. Censorship, low prices and a lack of jobs were woof and warp, so many artists sought refuge abroad. The Spanish comic industry was at a low point in the early 1950s. He then joined Francisco de La Fuente's Histograf agency, for which he drew 'Un Chico de Arkansas' and, most notably, the 'Sylvia Millones' series.
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His main work of the time was 'El Héroe de Saipan', an exotic comics serial published in 1950. In a style resembling that of Americans like Milton Caniff and Frank Robbins, he contributed to such publications as Pocholo, Historietas, Estrellita, El Coyote ('Polito, chico moderno'), TBO and La Prensa. Nicknamed "The Sheriff of Comics", Toutain has helped many Spanish artists find their way in the international comic industry.īorn in 1932 in Barcelona, Toutain started as an illustrator himself in the late 1940s. Although he started out as an artist in his own right, he has essentially made his mark as founder and maintainer of the agency Selecciones Illustradas and as the head of the publishing house Toutain Editor. Josep Toutain Vila was one of the key figures in Spanish comics from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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