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Forges ( cartoonist ) Antonio Fraguas de Pablo , better known as Forges ( 17 January 1942 – 22 February 2018 ) , was a Spanish graphic humorist . His artistic name is based on the translation to Catalan of the word fraguas . Biography . Born in Madrid , was the son of a Catalan mother and Galician father ( the writer and journalist Antonio Fraguas Saavedra ) , was baptized with the name Rafael Antonio Benito Fraguas de Pablo , and spent his childhood in a large family in which he is the second of nine brothers . He was a bad student , but a great reader of Richmal Crompton and her William Brown books . He studied in Madrid high school ( at the Cervantes Institute ) and telecommunications engineering – which he did not finish – and Social Sciences . In 1956 , at age 14 , he began working as a telecine technician at Televisión Española and as an image mixer since 1962 . He left the TVE staff as a Study Coordinator in 1973 to dedicate himself professionally to graphic humor . He had published his first drawing in 1964 in the newspaper Pueblo , by the hand of Jesús Hermida , and then went on to Informaciones . Jesús de la Serna entrusted him with the editorial joke . He did military service as an artillery fighter , and married Pilar Garrido Cendoya and had three daughters and a son ; in 1970 he began to collaborate in Diez Minutos and worked in the humor magazines Hermano Lobo , Por Favor and El Jueves , and in the weekly Sábado Gráfico , Interviú , Lecturas , etc . Since 1982 he published the editorial joke in Diario 16 and later in El Mundo , but he left this newspaper after having been one of its seven founders , and in 1995 he went on to sign El Paíss editorial joke . In 1992 his novel Doce de Babilonia appears . Forges reveals himself as a fairly solid and orderly novelist , although perhaps he is guilty of excessive dependence on graphic humor in the hooligan approach to his humorous features . Set in an imaginary Babylon , it narrates the vicissitudes of a group of sages , the twelve Akadémikos , who are persecuted by the High Priest of the city , Okrom , for the hatred that this subject has to any technical , cultural or scientific advance . The protection that King Nebuchadnezzar gives them is not enough to free them from persecution . Ideologically very simple in its approaches , it incurs voluntarily in anachronisms in order to present history as an eternal struggle between Hate and Love , Terror and Humor . He directed two films ( País S.A. , 1975 , and El bengador Gusticiero y su pastelera madre , 1977 ) and four humor series on television , El Muliñandupelicascarabajo ( 1968 ) , Nosotros ( 1969 ) and 24 horas aquí ( 1976 ) , on TVE ; and Deforme semanal ( 1991 ) , on Telemadrid with his brother José María Fraguas . In radio , he participated in programs such as Protagonistas , by Luis del Olmo and La Ventana by Javier Sardá and Gemma Nierga , and before his death he was on No es un día cualquiera , by RNE , with Pepa Fernández . In addition , in 2014 he presented and directed the television program Pecadores impequeibols in La 2 de TVE . He died on 22 February 2018 at 76 years of age in Madrid , a victim of pancreatic cancer . Style . As a comedian , he used very personal black-line sandwiches and a stylized language extracted directly from the street . «Inventor» of words and lexical idioms ( gensanta , stupendo , bocata , firulillo , esborcio , jobreído , gürtélido , tontolcool , etc. ) , he was one of the few humorists with an ear sensitive to popular language . He also created , graphically , the taco or swearword crossed out in the texts of his drawings , gaining an attenuated lexical expression for some of his characters in a pure popular colloquial language . Costumbrismo and social criticism occupy a fundamental place in his work . His strength was the critical vision of the situations of daily life . Forges created an extensive iconography of characters and comic situations that reflects the idiosyncrasy and sociology of contemporary Spain : - Mariano , a frustrated bourgeois married to a fat woman named Concha , who represents the repressive conscience . - The shipwrecked on a boring island that have to fight loneliness with a hypertrophy of fantasy . - The Blasillos that represent rural and eternal Spain . - The old ones that combine computer science and paletez [ definition? ] . - The office workers pissed off . - The marriage buried in a huge bed . - The potentate boss and asshole . - The Americanized yuppie and idiot . - The posh and imbecile brat . - The alienated by football . - The pissed off and subversive office worker . - The off-hook that closes bars . - The window pretensioner . - The cloistered in the bunker . - The deep official . - The corrupt politician . - The reactionary potentate . A substantial part of his work is made up of albums on the history of Spain in comics and on computers for clumsy . He affirmed that in Spain it does not take inspiration to be a humorist . In 2007 he took part in the tribute book to Uderzo ( current author of Asterix and Obelix ) , on the occasion of his eightieth birthday , an album in which 30 artists of the world comic have drawn adventures of the aforementioned characters , but with their respective styles . In 2008 he proposed to Spanish institutions the possibility of obtaining the support of graphic humorists from around the world to the UN Millennium Goals , a proposal that was officially presented at the Instituto Cervantes in New York in October of that year , on the occasion of the General Assembly of the United Nations , under the sponsorship of the Government and the technical support of the EFE Agency of Spain , showing to the media accredited before the high international organization , a DVD containing the explicit commitment of support for the dissemination of the referred Millennium Goals , by some of the main Ibero-American graphic humorists , as the initial coordinated action of the project . In 2012 , and on the proposal of the academic faculty of the University of Alcalá de Henares , he was appointed Technical Director of the Instituto Quevedo del Humor , the first specific university center founded in Spain to study humor in all its facets . Honours and Awards . Antonio Fraguas «Forges» , who has never been a member of any jury , and who has never been presented personally or by third parties to any contest award , has several prizes for which you do not need to apply , such as the Freedom Award of Expression of the Union of Journalists of Spain ; He is also an Honorary Member of the Journalists Association of Catalonia and is in possession of the Creu de Sant Jordi , the highest Catalan honour . He won the Antonio de Sancha Prize ( 2001 ) , of the Madrid editors , and the Gat Perich International Humor Award . On 7 December 2007 , the Council of Ministers of Spain awarded him the Gold Medal of Merit in Labour . In November 2009 the Association of Booksellers awarded him the Legend Award , for his constant defense of reading and books through his drawings . In April 2011 , the Council of Ministers of Spain awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts . Likewise , it receives the Onda Mediterránea award 2011 . In December of the same year , it received the Emilio Castelar award , in the specialty of Communicative Efficacy , of the Cadiz journalists . In May 2012 , he received the FAO Award for the dissemination of the worlds food problem in his drawings . Also in 2012 he receives the award of Honor Member of the Burgos Orfeón , for the repeated appearance of said institution in his jokes , and the Notary Award for Humor awarded by the University of Alicante . In 2013 , the Rodolfo Benito Samaniego Foundation , in Alcalá de Henares , awarded him the Prize for Coexistence , Peace and Freedom . In October of this same year , he received the Liber Press distinction , along with Joan Manuel Serrat and Eduardo Punset , in Gerona In December 2013 , he received the Pedro Antonio de Alarcón National Journalism Award in its twelfth edition , in recognition of his career . In 2014 , he was awarded the Artemio Precioso Prize for his work in defense of the environment . On the occasion of his 50 years of profession , he published a coupon for the ONCE and a sheet of postal stamps with drawings and his names by Correos and he was named Doctor honoris causa by the Miguel Hernández University in Elche . In November of the same year he was awarded , unanimously by the jury , the Ibero-American Graphic Humor Award Quevedos . On 28 January 2016 , he was also named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Alcalá .