# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-escobar-saliente
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:51:48.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-escobar-saliente"
name: "José Escobar Saliente"
slug: "jose-escobar-saliente"
description: "José Escobar Saliente was a Spanish comic book writer and artist, born in Barcelona. He signed as Escobar, and is most famous for his creation Zipi y Zape, as well as the character Carpanta. He was also an author and a theater actor, as well as one of the pioneers of animation in Spain during the 1920s, and worked on early Spanish animated movies, such as La ratita que barría la escalerita."
tagline: "Spanish cartoonist (1908-1994)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1908-10-22"
deathDate: "1994-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.694818666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260322/"
    handle:    "nm0260322"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Escobar_Saliente"
    title: "José Escobar Saliente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "خوسيه أسكوبار سالينتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "خوسيه اسكوبار سالينتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Escobar_i_Saliente"
    title: "Josep Escobar i Saliente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Escobar_Saliente"
    title: "José Escobar Saliente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Escobar_Saliente"
    title: "José Escobar Saliente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Escobar"
    title: "José Escobar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Escobar_Saliente"
    title: "José Escobar Saliente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Escobar_Saliente"
    title: "José Escobar Saliente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3085231"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump