Dimensions: 29.5 x 21 cm
signed lower right: 'Butenko pinxit'
Biography
Drawer, illustrator, and graphic artist; author of comics and books; screenwriter; designer of puppets and sets for puppet theaters. In 1955, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Jan Marcin Szancer and, that same year, began his artistic career as an art editor at the Nasza Księgarnia publishing house. He collaborated with numerous publishers and magazines for children and young people—*Miś*, *Płomyczek*, *Płomyk*, and *Świerszczyk*. His illustrations appeared in over 250 books, as well as in *Świat Młodych*. He is the creator of well-known comic book characters—Gapiszon and Kwapiszon, which he created himself, as well as Gucio and Cezar. Gapiszon is one of the most famous Polish comic book heroes, who has also been adapted for the screen. In Poland, Butenko’s works have repeatedly won the title of “Most Beautiful Book of the Year,” awarded by the Polish Book Publishers Association, as well as the title of “Book of the Year.” He was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Order of the Smile.
