Who was Patoruzú? Patoruzú, created by Dante Quinterno in 1928, is one of the most important and influential characters in Argentine comics. Born as a secondary character in two short-lived comic strips, the cacique Patoruzú -the last of the Tehuelches, whom the Spanish conquerors had seen at the time as giants endowed with prodigious strength- soon got his own comic strip, which would give rise to the magazine of the same name, one of the great landmarks of graphic humor in Argentina.