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Axtor Disney was an american cartoonist, illustrator, musician, and magician. Elder brother of Walter E. and Roy O. Disney, he along with his brothers founded The Walt Disney Company in 1923.
After many heated and sometimes violent discussions, mostly due to his very peculiar and strange work methods, and especially because of his children illustrations which can only be described as 'queer', he was fired from his own company and expelled from the core of the Disney family itself, situation that made him change his very own last name from Disney to "Majesto" (paying tribute to a bum from his neighborhood). His brothers made sure to wipe each and every piece of work that could credit his existence, burning all his sketches and his macabre collection of deformed animals.
Secluded in the darkness and mentally supressed, Axtor decides to give birth to a new company named "Espeluzland" in order to compete with the overly friendly and fantastic world of his new enemies, the Disney brothers. The failure was resounding. Deprived of any trace of honor, and overwhelmed by debt and the constant harassment by the right-minded organizations of the time, he withdrew himself again into his ancient and now abandoned castle, to which he referred to as his great unfulfilled dream "Espeluzland", where he dwelt until his mysterious disappearance.
Very few traces remain of his artistic legacy, and all that prevails is the legend. Not many years ago it was known that there was a secret organization whose only purpose was to find the missing work of Axtor Majesto, to preserve it and show it to the world through their website www.espeluzland.com. It is because of this organization that part of the work of this deeply perturbed but brilliant artist reaches our hands, and yet it is nothing but a small part of the vast and unknown universe that resided in sick mind.

Axtor Disney fue ilustrador, dibujante, músico y mago estadounidense. Hermano mayor de Walter E. y Roy O. Disney, fundó junto a estos The Walt Disney Company en 1923.
Tras discusiones violentas por sus personalísimos metodos de trabajo, y especialmente sus aturdidas visiones sobre el dibujo infantil, no solo fue expulsado de la compañia sino también de la familia Disney, cambiando entonces, su apellido Disney por “Majesto”, en honor a un linyera barrial. Sus hermanos se ocuparon luego de exterminar todo rastro artistico que acreditara su existencia, quemando asi sus bocetos y macabras colecciones de animales deformes.
Recluido en la oscuridad y mentalmente abolido, Axtor decide crear una compañia llamada “Espeluzland” para competir con el amigable mundo de fantasia de sus ahora enemigos hermanos Disney. El fracaso fue rotundo. Sin ningún tipo de gloria y abarrotado por las deudas y las persecusiones de todos los organismos bienpensantes de la época se recluyó entonces en un antiguo castillo abandonado al que bautizó como su mayor sueño jamas logrado, “Espeluzland” y vivió alli hasta su misteriosa desaparición. De su obra artística quedan pocos rastros y el resto es la leyenda. Hace algunos años se supo que existía una organización secreta que se había autoimpuesto la tarea de dar con la obra de Axtor Majesto, conservar su arte y mostrarlos al mundo a traves de su pagina www.espeluzland.com
Gracias a ellos llega a nuestras manos retazos de la obra de este perturbado y genial artista, el universo completo que habitó su desquiciada mente.


Axtor Espeluzland