The life of Florencio Molina Campos took place between 1891 and 1959. He grew up in the fields of Buenos Aires and witnessed the last gauchos and the transformation of the free pampas in cultivation and rodeo camps. That is how he was able to portrait, through a "harmless, pleasant, and human" cartoon, the people and things he knew so well, using a sagacious eye and a tedious brush. In the thirties, the directors of Alpargatas came up with the brilliant idea of illustrating almanacs with the artist's drawings. That was an artistic and publicity encounter since, not only did the man gain fame, his drawings to this day continue to be associated with the firm that knew how to promote him. Walt Disney, in the late forties, decided it was time to take a look at "the friends from the south", and forwarded his talents and means to Latin-American countries. The idea summed up with the movie "Saludos Amigos" (Greetings Fellows), where Donald Duck, the skull cock Panchito, the chatterbox parrot Jose Carioca, and a small gauche traveled along the continent. This last drawing did not come from the Disney studios but from Molina Campos, who was able to do both a cartoon and a small piece of art.
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