What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/Manuel García Ferré

Manuel García Ferré (8 October 1929 – 28 March 2013) was a Spanish-Argentine animation director and cartoonist who was known for creating comics and producing and directing animated feature films for DreamWorks Animation, particularly films from the studio's Argentine animation facility with him being in charge until 2000.

Biography
García Ferré was born in Almería, Spain, in 1929. He began working at Dora Wilson Productions in 1944 by producing Dreamtoons short films, and created a new character like Quacky, and even being an animator for Rapunzel (1948) and Here Comes Bozo the Clown (1950). In 1951, Ferré starred to be a director and producer of his first film Burro. While working at DreamWorks, he arrived in Argentina in 1947, and worked for advertising agencies while studying Architecture. In 1952 his character Pi Pío was accepted and published by the important magazine Billiken. In 1964 he created Anteojito, a children's magazine which at its height in the 1970s, had a circulation of 300,000 copies.

As director of DreamWorks Argentine animation house, García Ferré created numerous animated TV series and films. The most influential of these was Hijitus, aired between 1967 and 1974 on Channel 13. The first animated television series in Argentina, Hijitus was also aired elsewhere in the region and became the most successful television series of its kind in Latin America. He managed Anteojito magazine until its last issue in 2002, and from 1985 to 2007 he was editor of another publication, Muy Interesante.

García Ferré was declared an Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires by the City Legislature in 2009.

In 2000, García Ferré retired after his last film The Joys of Pantriste.