Bernardo Vergara (
Pamplona
Pamplona (; eu, Iruña or ), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain. It is also the third-largest city in the greater Basque cultural region.
Lying at near above ...
, 1966) is a Spanish cartoonist.
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
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History and profile
The newspaper was founded ...
'', ''
El Mundo'', ''
El País
''El País'' (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. ''El País'' is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA.
It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El Pa ...
'' or ''
Heraldo de Aragón
''Heraldo de Aragón'' is a Spanish language regional daily newspaper published in Saragossa, Spain. The paper has been in circulation since 1895.
History and profile
''Heraldo de Aragón'' was first published on 20 September 1895. The owner is ...
''.
In 1999 he joined the team of collaborators of ''
El Jueves
(Spanish for "''Thursday''") is a Spanish weekly satirical magazine based in Barcelona.
Throughout most of its life, ''El Juevess masthead has featured the tagline "" ("''the magazine that comes out on Wednesdays''"). Its mascot is a nameless ...
'', 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
''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at ...
parody.
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Caso clínico: Revista Mister K
', tebeosfera
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. Also for ''El Jueves'' he created the series ''Los Ilegales'', a satirical view of the problems of the
illegal immigrants
Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of the immigration laws of that country or the continued residence without the legal right to live in that country. Illegal immigration tends to be financially upwa ...
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
Juan Carlos I (;,
* ca, Joan Carles I,
* gl, Xoán Carlos I, Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 Novem ...
. Other cartoonist also left the magazine. 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''. He was later hired by the monthly satirical magazine
Mongolia
Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million ...
.
Mongolia tiene cuatro nuevos habitantes: Alcázar, Fontdevila, Monteys y Vergara
en revistamongolia.com
Work
References
External links
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1966 births
Living people
Spanish comics artists
Spanish comics writers
Spanish comic strip cartoonists
People from Pamplona