 Also during this time, translations of comics from the United States, such as "Cocoliche" (Happy Hooligan) by Frederick Burr Opper, showed up in Argentina.During the 1910s, the amount of comics made in Argentina grew by leaps and bounds.In 1912, the first Argentine comic strip proper, with speech balloons and recurring characters, "Las aventuras de Viruta y Chicharrón", by Manuel Redondo, began being published in "Caras y Caretas".