Pedro Pico y Pico Vena is a one-page comic series created by Carlos Azagra for the weekly magazine “El Jueves” in 1984. It stars a skinhead and a punk.

We received an enticing proposal at our studio that presented an interesting technical challenge: adapting Carlos Azagra’s work, Pedro Pico and Pico Vena, into an animated TV series. During the time we had it in our hands, we put great effort into developing the technical, artistic, and economic of a series that had it all: A renowned piece that stood the test of time, full of cheekiness, with a unique aesthetic, social and with a lot of humor. Yes, exactly what people would call a classic.

However, as the ancients say, not everything glitters is gold, and unfortunately, we had to leave the project in its initial development phase.

In animation, sometimes projects don’t see the light of day for one reason or another. In this case, it’s a shame to keep it locked away and not share a glimpse of what could have been. Let’s consider it a fanart and tribute from our studio to Azagra’s work.

Mundo R is a Galician-Basque telephone company.Also, they have a strong presence in the north of Spain with telephone lines, internet connections and television channels. Besides, their headquarters are in A Coruña, our city. Furthermore, every year for their summer campaign they make a design for their building.

For this occasion, we worked closely with Alberto Taracido. Also, Taracido is a graphic designer and illustrator with a lot of imagination and creativity. On the other hand, he has so much imagination that we should have set limits for him. In conclusion, it was risky not to put limits on his work, but it was worth it; the result was spectacular.

Furthermore, he created a sculpture that hung from the building and pretended to pull it. It was very colourful and eye-catching. The result was a masterpiece and everyone in the city was fascinated by it. It’s something that doesn’t happen every day.

In short, it was a very interesting advertising campaign and Mundo R,  the client, trusted us completely. Here at Antaruxa Animation Studio we had fun and it was also inspiring to work with Alberto Taracido. We are looking forward to repeating a campaign like this one. We would also like to work again for R, Cable and Telecable Telecomunicaciones.