Roberto Fontanarrosa, 1944-2007



The Argentinian cartoonist and author Roberto Fontanarrosa died of heart failure on Thursday, according to Rodrigo Baeza at Comics Commentary. Born in 1944, Fontanarrosa kicked off his career as part of a generation of satirical cartoonist that came of age in the 1970s. He is primarily known for two characters that became best-selling series anchors: Inodoro Pereyra and Boogie, el aceitoso. Fontanarrosa was widely prolific, working in a number of magazines, publishing collections of gag work, becoming a well known novelist and short-story writer particularly of football (soccer) stories, and even, as Baeza mentions, putting together the occasional stand-alone projects such as an anthology of shorts in different styles called Continuara, books that might have served as the entirety of other cartoonists' careers.

In his final months, Fontanarrosa suffered from a debilitating disease that in January of this year forced him to give up drawing. He continued to write for his ongoing features. Roberto Fontanarrosa was 62 years old.
 
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