Template:Short description Template:Infobox comics creator Gabriel Bernal Vargas (5 February 1915 – 25 May 2010)[1][2] was a Mexican cartoonist, whose comic strip La Familia Burrón was created in 1937.[3][4][5] This cartoon has been described as one of the most important in Mexican popular culture.[1][2] Vargas won Mexico's Template:Ill (National Journalism Prize) in 1983 and the "Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes en el área de Tradiciones Populares" (National Sciences and Arts Prize) in 2003.[3][4][1][2][6][7]
Early life and education
Gabriel Vargas was born in Tulancingo, Hidalgo, on February 5, 1915, and had 11 siblings.[1][2] His father was a merchant and died when Gabriel was four years old.[3][4] In 1922, his mother, Josefina Bernal, moved the family to Mexico City.[3][4][1][2] Around 1928, Vargas began work as a draftsman for the Excélsior newspaper and eventually became its chief drawer[3][4][1][2] by 1931 when he was sixteen.[1][2] Vargas won an art contest sponsored by Panamericana Editorial which led to him penning his first comic, Los Superlocos, whose main protagonists became the basis for La Familia Burrón.[3][4][1][2]
La Familia Burrón
In 1937, Vargas began drawing La Familia Burrón as a separate piece which documented parents, Regino Burrón and Borola Tacuche de Burrón, their two teenage children, Regino and Macuca Burrón, and Foforito Cantarranas, a younger kid who was adopted by the Burróns.[3][4][1][2][6][8][9][10][11] La Familia Burrón profiled a lower class family's daily comedic struggles in an impoverished Mexican barrio.[6][8][9][10][11] At the height of its popularity, the comic strip helped circulation sales to reach 500,000 copies a week.[7][10][11] The comic was temporarily suspended but resumed in 1978.[10][11]
Later life and death
In 2007, Carlos Monsiváis, who is a patron of the arts, opened the Museo del Estanquillo with an exhibition of Vargas' La Familia Burrón paintings with the artist in person.[12][13] The Burrón Family were represented in painted forms by Regino Burrón and Borola Tacuche de Burrón, Regino and Foforito.[12][13] Vargas sat paralyzed because of an affiction he had suffered for the past twenty years.[12][13]
The Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes stated Vargas died on 25 May 2010 at his Mexico City home.[1][2][6] His health had declined in recent years but no cause of death was given.[1][2][6] According to a statement released by this council, Vargas was "one of the greatest representatives of the golden age of Mexican comics" and an "undeniable reference point for the nation’s popular culture".[7]
Bibliography
The following is a list of Vargas' various comic strips:[3][4][1][2]
- Los Superlocos
- La Familia Burrón (1937–2009)
- La vida de Cristo
- Sherlock Holmes
- Pancho López
- El gran Caperuzo
- Los Chiflados
- Los del Doce
- Sopa de perico
Awards
In 1983, Vargas received the "Premio Nacional de Periodismo" (National Journalism Prize) in the field of Popular Traditions.[3][4][1][2] In 2003, the "Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes en el área de Tradiciones Populares" (National Sciences and Arts Prize) was presented to him.[3][4][1][2] In 2007, the Federal District government recognized Vargas as a Distinguished Citizen.[3][4][1][2] In addition, the Estanquillo Museum collections exhibited many of his painted works as a homage.[1][2] At the time of his death, a complete exhibition of La Familia Burrón was on display at a museum in Florence, Italy.[3][4]
On 5 February 2015, Google Doodle celebrated Gabriel Vargas’ 100th Birthday.[14][15]
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