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(1914 - 1969, Argentina)
He was born at Buenos Aires on July 16, 1914. Son of a doctor notable, he rejected the paternal career to follow your vocation. Guillermo Divito started his career in 1931 in Pages de Columba. Some time later he collaborated with Dante Quinterno, poducing such comic strips as 'El Enemigo del Hombre' and 'Oscar Dientes de Leche', and soon he would pass to draw to for Patoruzú (famous Argentinean magazine) where it creates your first characters. Soon after in 1944, after a divergence with the director of Patoruzú decides to create a new project. This way, it founds Rico Tipo a magazine of weekly publication that would become fundamental piece of the Argentinean graphic humor.
Rico Tipo had a circulation of 350000 weekly copies and it was in opposition with the followers' of Patoruzú line, magazine that could have imposed a family humor.
However, they would be the girls that Divito drew for the covers of Rico Tipo that he would win fame as designer. Incorporating the imaginary of an entire time, the girls of wide hips, wasp waist, prominent bust and imposing legs, they were the own modern sensuality.
In the personal life, Divito was a refined bachelor that mixed the playboy and the bohemian. Guillermo Divito was killed in a car crash in 1969
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