Julio Fairlie (el Tata)

Julio  is a character by himself. His friends know him as "el flaco" Fairlie (skinny Fairlie). At one point he was pubvlishing a comic strip called "la página del Flaco" (the page of "el flaco"). His family and his closest friends call him "el Tata" (which is a quechua (inca language) word for grandpa). Drawing comic strips (and coming up with the jokes) is just one of his many abilities and characteristics. One other thing he really likes to do is oil painting. If you click HERE you'll see some of his paintings. He had a motorcycle until 1990 when he was about 65 years old. He always had a motorcycle, the last m,otorbike he had was a Honda Dax-70cc. On this bike he did an amazing journey, from Lima to Arequipa (Round trip)!!! (Arequipa is 1050Km from Lima and over 4500 meters above sea level in the andes!)

But that wasn't the only trip he did on a motorcycle out of Lima. There was a time when he had an old Harley Davidson, and he did the "Caminos del Inca" (inca roads) (Lima-Arequipa-Puno-Cuzco-Huancayo-Lima) on it. In order to have time to travel like this he would draw a whole bunch of comic strips and send them all at once to the newspaper he worked for, that way he didn´ have to worry about working for as many days as comic strips he drew. I've been able to recover a few articles that were written about him and his motorcycle trips, click on the articles below to enlarge them (and read the translation)

Click here to read about the trip from Lima to Arequipa and back to Lima on a Dax

Cajamarca and Cuzco

Caminos del Inca on  a Harley

Cajamarca and Cuzco on a Honda 350cc

Click here to see some Julio Fairlie paintings

Back to main page