Sandor Gugi

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Alexander Gugi graphic artist, journalist , painter and teacher. Book and press illustrator. In the 1950s, he played a key role in the relaunch of Hungarian comics . Sándor Gugi won a national study drawing competition in 1934 , and a year later he was admitted to the Painting Department of Vilmos Aba-Novák at the College of Fine Arts . At the end of his studies, he obtained a teacher's diploma in teaching geometric drawing and fine arts, and from 1940 he worked as an assistant drawing teacher.

From 1947 to 1949 he was a teacher and deputy director of the history of drawing and art at the Árpád High School . After he stopped teaching, he turned to press graphics and worked for the Free People (Nepszabadsag).

He published his first comic in 1954 in the Journal of the Councils , where he drew the adventures of Tamás Talál in 45 stripes based on SJ's text. The following year, he approached Tibor Cs. Horváth, who worked for the Ministry of Education, with the suggestion of adapting classical and popular literary works in this form in order to rehabilitate a comic (“imperialist cultural filth”) that had hitherto been overlooked by Soviet-type cultural policy. After that, Gugi's comics - mostly based on the scripts of Cs. Horváth - were published by The New World , the Warrior of Freedom , Po Sztránye Sovetov , the Hungarian Youth , the Fülesand on the pages of the Capable Language Master . The latter was a designer and draftsman of the covers of a foreign language teaching journal for a long time.

In the 1960s, he turned his back on the comic for a while. As a press graphic artist, image editor, illustrator, he had internal and external staff (including Showcase , Council Journal , Family and School ), and in the early 1970s took a job at the Institute for Design Development and Type Design (TTI) (image and layout editor for publications, typographer ), then from 1974 he worked as a layout editor for the Hungarian Youth . He also designed the classic, “globe” headline of the World Economy daily. In 1970 , two more Hidden-back to the power of novel processing he returned to the comic.