René Giffey

~ 1898 – 1963 Laffitte was a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator. His biography is quite incomplete. He was born in Barcelona where his father, Casimiro Canalejo Soler, an official in the Telegraph Corps, had settled when he remarried Carmen Sierra Laffitte in 1894. When she became a widow ten years later,…

~ 1879 – 1949 Umberto was an Italian artist. He was born in Montemurlo, Italy, studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence and moved to Paris in 1900 with Ardengo Soffici where he soon established himself as a printer, book illustrator, set and costume designer. He worked for the magazine Le Rire as a caricaturist (often under the pseudonym’s Aroun-al-Raxid or Aron-al-Rascid)…