Bernardo Vergara (cartoonist)

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Bernardo Vergara (Pamplona, 1966) is a Spanish cartoonist.

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Biography

He began his career in the world of comics in the 1980s, in the fanzine of Pamplona Hamelín, and later, along with other artists of this fanzine, went to work with the comic magazine TMEO. In the early 1990s he also worked in magazines of publisher Ediciones B such as Mortadelo or Zipi y Zape . Later he worked for agencies, as well as newspapers such as Diario del Altoaragón , El Mundo , El País or Heraldo de Aragón .

In 1999 he joined the team of collaborators of El Jueves , for which he created the character of Urbano. Alongside José Luis Agreda he created for that magazine the strip Jaula Magna with jokes about the university world. For the children's magazine Míster K he created, alongside EnriqueCarlos, the strip Harry Pórrez , a Harry Potter parody. [1] [2] Also for El Jueves he created the series Los Ilegales, a satirical view of the problems of the illegal immigrants in Spain.

He collaborated with the daily newspaper Público with the strip Piso para cuatro and he publishes jokes for the online newspaper eldiario.es.

Abandonment of El Jueves

In June 2014, Vergara announced his departure from the magazine El Jueves after the editorial RBA not allowed to publish a cover with a joke which referenced the abdication of the king of Spain, Juan Carlos I. Other cartoonist also left the magazine. [3] Those comic artist published on 18 June, the day before the coronation of Philip VI, an online comic with jokes about the event titled Orgullo y satisfacción. [4] He was later hired by the monthly satirical magazine Mongolia. [5]

Work

AñosTitleTipePublicationDetails
1990BenjamínSeries Super Zipi y Zape (Ediciones B)
1991Casa PacoSeries Mortadelo Extra (Ediciones B)
1992El enemigo del mundo enteroMonography Ezten Kultur Taldea Collaboration
1998KarolinoSeries Mala Impresión
1998Ficciones realesSeriesMala Impresión
1998 Los Chapas Series El Jueves Drawn by José Luis Ágreda
1999Ficciones realesMonography Megamultimedia
1999 Urbano SeriesEl Jueves
1999Los retractiladosSeries El País de las Tentaciones
2001Manual de instrucciones para libros de instrucciones Astiberri
2003Las alegres inconveniencias de Urbano. Mi colega invitaMonographyAstiberri. ISBN   84-95825-46-5
2005Harry Pórrez y el misterio del Santo GrialLos libros de Mister K, nº2. Ediciones El Jueves. ISBN   978-84-9741-563-7.
10/2008La historia del cómic de E. H. Gombrich Short strip"Dos veces breve" nº 16Written by Santiago García
2009Harry Pórrez y el as en la manga de CondemortEdiciones El Jueves. ISBN   978-84-9741-593-4.
2009El mundo según Ptolomeo Diábolo Ediciones ISBN   978-84-937422-0-1.

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