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Non-Group Looking to the author (Part 2)

In 1987 Alfonso Herrera Melquiades Morales invited to present the "cigar stories, the history of comics in Mexico" at the National Museum of Cultures popular. There Melquiades conducted the "artistic" works that appeared in Borola Tachuche one of the numerous family Burron precisely where Borola Borola Tacuchoff calls himself and where it conducted a site for example, with hairs scattered on the floor of hairdressing "The golden curl." For Melquiades observe / enjoy everyday of Gabriel Vargas was medullary, Carlos Monsivais, too. (Long live the family Burron)



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newspaper La Jornada / Wednesday May 26, 2010, p. a44

Gabriel Vargas died, creator of The Family Burron

For 61 years the cartoon depicted the life of neighborhoods and criticized the political class Mateos-Vega Monica A sad story was run yesterday the crocodile in the Capirucho, especially in the dead of rennet and lupine chochenta zillion number: he died Gabriel Bernal Vargas, one of the dauber more ports, ie one of Mexico's most important cartoonists of the twentieth century. The creator of the beloved family Burron, a neighborhood and a language that portrayed the lives of poor neighborhoods and Mexico City for 61 years, but, above all, molded a strong criticism of the political class in power, died at his home, surrounded by family, at 95 years of age. His remains will be cremated today at 9 am at a funeral in the streets of Sullivan.

born in 1915 in Tulancingo, Hidalgo, a land, as he said, of very brave horse, and very much in love matones.Debido the death of his father, after four years had to leave the homeland to settle in Mexico City, where his mother opened on Calle de Moneda, a grocery store to sustain their 12 children. That made his great curiosity about the characters who surrounded him and that earned him when I was in sixth grade, a competition launched by the then Federal District vehicular traffic. Conducted at nine years drawing more than 2 000 figures detailing the bustle of the city, with all its shops and stalls ads.
But her mother objected to that vocation: You will not be dauber!, She said, to what Gabriel replied crying: But I really like the artist recalled in an interview with La Jornada in 1998.

The need and commitment were the factors that gave birth to The Family Burron in 1937. The slightly more than 50 cartoon characters and situations which they lived were enriched in the journeys that the author made for years by neighborhood of Tepito and Santa Julia. The artist called The Burron referring to the working class who spends every day like beasts, they are Burrone, I thought. The recurring themes of the cartoon, published without interruption for 61 years, selling in its golden age up to 500 000 copies weekly always been treated, above all, with humor, and family disintegration were the houses girls, drunken parents, political corruption, famine, repression, or the red tape, says lead researcher Miguel Angel Gallo in his book Comics: a sociological approach (Ediciones Quinto Sol.) He adds that the language used by the author is rich in expressions, sayings, nicknames, slang, and speech is much broader popular urban sectors. So the police are epithets like owls, minions of the devil will tlachicotón pulque, the gun, bully, the drink, inflate, the face, feis, head, bone; legs are the gallop, the planes, aeroplátanos; the house, canton, the weights, bucks, stingrays or potsherds.

In 2001 Gabriel Vargas explained to this newspaper, for years clung to the Burron ratitos nothing else, had them cast aside and now all I have, the only thing that makes me live. They told the daily life continue as usual, as the country remains the same, down, only with more thieves and more individuals uneasy humanity. The cartoonist was

shame to the praise of well-educated characters, such as Alfonso Reyes, Carlos Monsivais and Sergio Pitol. Sorry I have not even completed high school. My dream was to become a doctor, like my mother wanted. By poverty and needs dedicated myself to work. I flung the pure Mexican value. Under other circumstances, I would never have dared to do comic books, is something that I was really scared. Don Gabriel, who always said with pride that he was one of the Burrone, went to skeletons. And insiders say that today the Loop Gold closed in his memory. Rupert Tacuche made hundreds of loaves to distribute in the wake, Acorn Bella and her son Robertino help spread Campeche and other delicacies of that good baker. Meanwhile, the poet Avelino Pilongano prepared a sonnet, to be used on epitaph.