Storia d'Amore e di Fiume (Comic Art, 1990)
Peiro was born Manuel Peirotti in the city of Córdoba, 500 miles away from Buenos Aires. He first broke into the comic scene in the mid-seventies, as a cartoonist, producing one-panel gags. At first he worked for the popular magazine Hortensia, and then for other humor magazines like Mengano and Chaupinela. In the early eighties, his work was popular enough to guarantee him permanent assignments from the Buenos Aires-based Ediciones de la Urraca. His one-panel gags and early comic pages were published in Humor and SuperHumor. The latter offered Peiro's first attempts at a serious, dramatic storytelling.
In the mid-eighties, Peiró kept on producing humor strips (for the adults-oriented Sexomente, SexHumor and others) and at the same time put a lot of effort in his brief, but extremely powerful comics that appeared in Fierro, and were later reprinted in Europe and the U.S. Since the mid-nineties, Peiró has focused on his humorous work, that includes a daily newspaper strip called 'Primer Mundo' (for the Córdoba-based La Voz del Interior) and satirical illustrations for that same newspaper.
