Francisco Martín Morales, the cartoonist popularly known as ‘Martinmorales’, has died this Saturday at the age of 76. This has been reported by the Ideal newspaper, where he began working as a graphic humorist.
“We have lost a genius who made our province his home. Rest in peace, teacher,” the mayor of Granada, Francisco Cuenca, indicated shortly after on his Twitter profile, since it is in that city where he has carried out all his work. creative.
Born in Almería in 1946, the humorist began his collaborations in several newspapers such as the Nuevo Diario de Madrid, Mundo Diario, the magazine Mundo de Barcelona, ??El Jueves and the OTR news agency.
Later, he participated, also as a collaborator, in the foundation of the magazine Por Favor and later, he worked in Grupo Z, where he published his jokes, both in magazines and in newspapers. Since 1994 he has collaborated with the ABC newspaper and since 2010 with the República.es portal.
Throughout his career he held exhibitions of his work at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and was awarded various prizes, such as the Valencia Humor Olympiad and the Mingote Prize. In addition, he was the author of several books of graphic humor, among which La España de Martinmorales and La Guerra de los golfos stand out. Since May 2007 he has been a member of the Granada Academy of Fine Arts.
Last April, the cartoonist’s family donated his graphic work to the University of Granada, a legacy that includes around 15,000 originals spanning from the start of his career in the 1960s to the summer of 2010. formats are multiple and range from the smallest of the first and second periods in ink on paper to the large panoramas for Interviú or Panorama on cardboard.
