Daniel Branca

Daniel Branca was born in Buenos Aires in 1951. He began his career at age 16, working as an assistant animator at an advertising agency. In the following year, he also worked for a local TV station, as well as some educational publications. In 1971, he began a collaboration with fellow artist Oscar Fernández. Together, they drew numerous comics for El Clan de Mac Perro, a supplement of the magazine Billiken.

After 'Doña Tele', their first collective work with texts by Silvia Bolster, Branca and Fernández drew 'Barbeta y Grunchi' and two episodes of 'Mac Perro'. Together with writer Enrique Pinti, they revived 'El Mono Relojero', one of the initial series of the magazine Billiken. Branca and Fernández also cooperated on the magazine Satiricón, for which they produced 'El Sátiro Virgen' with texts by Oskar Blotta in 1972.

He moved to Barcelona, Spain in 1976. There, he started out working for Bruguera publishers, drawing the series 'Caramelot' and 'Sir Bombin' (again with Fernández) in Zipi Zape, as well as in Gaby, Miliki y Fofito. He eventually turned to the Bardon Art agency a year later. Through this agency, he began drawing Disney comics for the Danish publisher Egmont. Branca became one of the most notable Disney artists for European publications, who worked with most Disney characters, but mainly with the Ducks. He took a break in the early 1980s, and went to study painting in Paris. He moved to Mallorca in 1984 and back to Buenos Aires in 1985, where he continued to draw Duck stories.

His style is close to that of Carl Barks of the 1960s. He developed this conventional style to a more smooth and dashing one, using more speed in his artwork. Among his pupils are the Disney artists José Massaroli and Wanda Gattino. In the 1990s, Branca returned to Billiken with the series 'Montana'.