"Alberto Vivanco Ortiz is a Chilean cartoonist, who is best-known for his drawings of sexy girls, most notably his cartoon character 'Lolita'. His work has been published throughout South-America, and he has also launched several magazines in his native ountry Chile. At age 20, Vivanco left his hometown Quilpué to study Journalism at the University of Chile in Santiago in early 1960. He had with him several project proposals for cartoons and magazines to present to publishers in the country's capital.
He got his first cartooning job with the Catholic weekly La Voz, where he replaced Hernán Vidal, the creator of 'Malaquías', during an illness. Vivanco also published some work in the children's magazine El Peneca of Editorial Zig-Zag, and was present in La Pandilla, a magazine based around the creations of Chilean writer Marcela Paz, with the story 'El Gordo Sotito'. While with this magazine, he befriended the comic artists Pepo and Abel Romero, as well as the journalist Carlos Alberto Cornejo. He also worked with Pepo on his classic 'Condorito' comic.
He joined the daily Clarín, where he introduced his sexy cartoon character 'Lolita' in September 1960. Shortly afterwards, a color Sunday page was added to the daily feature. The character was deemed vulgar by some because it shared the name and thematics of the controversial 1959 novel by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. The paper's editor insisted on using the name, and long the way, "lolita" became a symbol for the country's transgressive youth, and, eventually, a Chilean nickname for pretty girls in general."
>gets first job in a dream field-- with a catholic weekly mag >flips an uno reverse and draws an absolutely stacked girl and name her after a certain book by Nabokov >name becomes an icon for a generation and becomes term for pretty girls in the country