'Hacienda el Indio' (La Risa #180).
J. Cebrián was active in the Spanish comic industry of the 1950s. As a contributor to La Risa magazine, he continued Francisco Ibáñez's humor feature 'Haciendo el Indio'.
Life and career
Nothing is known about J. Cebrián's life or background, except that he was Catalonian, presumably coming from Barcelona. In the late 1950s, he worked for La Risa, a humor comic magazine published by Editorial Marco. By 1958, the company's top cartoonists Francisco Ibáñez and Raf had moved to Editorial Bruguera, where they remained staples for the next couple of decades. Since publisher Tomás Marco Debón owned the rights to their creations for his magazines, he hired other artists to continue them. The most notable were Javier Pont, A. Pueyo, Kito, Mas Esparch and J. Cebrián - all cartoonists who have remained obscure entries in Spanish comic history. The artist signing with "J. Cebrián" was tasked with continuing 'Haciendo el Indio', a humor feature created in 1955 by Ibáñez, about a funny Native American. He notably gave the character a far more cartoony rendition than the Ibáñez original, with a big nose that makes up most of his face.
No further work by J. Cebrián is known. He is presumably not the same artist as Julio Cebrián Villagómez (1929-2016), who started in 1950s humor comics, who was active in the Madrid region.
'Hacienda el Indio' (La Risa #182).