Gabriel Vargas
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1983 "Premio Nacional de Periodismo" (National Journalism Prize) award ceremony
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| Born | Gabriel Bernal Vargas February 5, 1915 Tulancingo, Hidalgo |
| Died | May 25, 2010 (aged 95) Mexico City |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, painter |
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Notable works
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La Familia Burrón (comic strip) The Burrón Family |
| Awards | 1983 "Premio Nacional de Periodismo" (National Journalism Prize) 2003 "Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes en el área de Tradiciones Populares" (National Sciences and Arts Prize) |
Gabriel Bernal Vargas (5 February 1915 – 25 May 2010) was a Mexican cartoonist, whose comic strip La Familia Burrón was created in 1937. This cartoon has been described as one of the most important in Mexican popular culture. Vargas won Mexico's "Premio Nacional de Periodismo" (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.
Gabriel Vargas was born in Tulancingo, Hidalgo, on February 5, 1915, and had 11 siblings. His father was a merchant and died when Gabriel was four years old. In 1922, his mother, Josefina Bernal, moved the family to Mexico City. Around 1928, Vargas began work as a draftsman for the Excélsior newspaper and eventually became its chief drawer by 1931 when he was sixteen. 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.
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.La Familia Burrón profiled a lower class family's daily comedic struggles in an impoverished Mexican barrio. At the height of its popularity, the comic strip helped circulation sales to reach 500,000 copies a week. The comic was temporarily suspended but resumed in 1978.
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