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Jorge Alderete (1971), also known as Dr. Alderete, is an Argentine illustrator, animator, editor and owner of several businesses,〔 〕 best known for his comic book and kitsch aesthetic in his work. Most of Alderete’s career has evolved in Mexico, where he came in 1998 and with the exception of a year in Spain, has since stayed, living and worked from his apartment in Colonia Roma in Mexico City. Most of his work is related to Mexico City’s music scene, especially rock and surf bands, having created about eighty CD covers and various other promotional items including the billboards for the 2011 Vive Latino music festival. Alderete’s work has appeared in publications, including anthologies of graphic arts in Mexico, the United States and Europe and has also done animation work for MTV, Nickelodeon and Mexican television. ==Life== Jorge Alderete was born in the town of Santa Cruz, Argentina (Patagonia) in 1971.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 He is the eldest of three children to a middle class family and named after his father. His mother was a teacher and his father a state employee. Although born in Santa Cruz, he grew up in a small city called Neuquén, in the province of the same name.〔 〕 Aldrete received his first comic book/graphic novel before he was able to read and took to them immediately, reading them through his childhood in the 1970s and 1980s. This comic books were not of the superhero kind. In Argentina, they are closer to graphic novel His interest in rock music began in the 1980s, but much of the music he was listening to was from the 1970s, punk and hard rock, which had not reached that part of the world until then.〔 His taste in this music has developed towards surf music (1960s, Beach Boys) and instrumental rock. Later, he would integrate himself in Mexico City’s rock scene for both personal and business reasons soon after he arrived. He says he is a frustrated musician; instead, he collaborates with bands through his art.〔〔 He entered college in 1989, his first move away from his hometown.〔 He went to the National University of La Plata in Buenos Aires to study design and visual communication.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Jorge Alderete ) 〕 He worked in Argentina for a while but in 1998, he and wife Clarissa Moura, also a designer, decided to live abroad temporarily for the experience.〔〔〔 Their two choices were Mexico and Spain, and initially they went to Mexico.〔 In 2001, on Moura's suggestion, the couple went to Spain, where Aldrete was able to obtain work, but returned to Mexico the following year as they did not feel as welcome in Europe.〔〔 Aldrete has since lived permanently in Mexico, not returning to Argentina except for business and annual trips to his hometown.〔 This artist is based in the Colonia Roma neighborhood, which is a center of underground and popular culture in Mexico City.〔 His apartment is relatively spacious, with books and spaces for toys and other items he has designed. It is also filled with doors, with one leading to his studio.〔 He works at home and does not have set hours, generally thinking about or working on projects all the time.〔 His time in Mexico has modified his pronunciation in Spanish, as well as vocabulary adapting Mexicanism 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jorge Alderete」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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