Very creative is Mr Moscoso. Biographies make great play of the fact that he is art school trained but the lack of such training has not held other cartoonists back. However his training and his background in poster design probably explain the experimental nature of his work. Moscoso is definitely a form over content man although in recent years there seems to be more narrative in his work, he has often been more concerned with parodying comic storylines .

One of his finest creations was the colour cover for ZAP 4 (which I may scan in one day) but much of his black and white work looks beautiful. Much of it is referential - either to the whole mechanics of narrative comics or to comic or cartoon characters such as those of Winsor McKay, Tenniel, Disney and the Fleischers. 

In recent years Moscoso has been in dispute with other artists over the future of Zap Comic (this link gives a potted history of Zap in strip form).

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