“I don’t know how to draw. My 8-year-old grandson is making you a thirty page comic book he made up. I don’t know how to do this at all”. Enriquesomeone who wears half a century, pen in hand, examines current events in a humorous language on BİLGİ pages.a newspaper to which he has adhered since its publication His first prank on September 28, 1972. “More on page 3,” he adds. Fifty years later this “graphic humor genius” As Forges, who has breakfast with his vignettes, describes it, he sticks to his almost daily appointment with readers, admitting that “it is a pleasure and an honor to continue publishing as long as I have the power and the newspaper wants it.” is this It keeps both my mind and my hand very alive and I don’t even have epicondylitis.”joking
Enrique Pérez Penedo (Alicante, 1951) sees himself as more than a graphic humorist, cartoonist or caricaturist. “Draw” and although it may seem like a joke that makes you grow mythIt is known to everyone that he dropped out of chemistry studies because he was “repetitive” and learned to paint and joke with a handwriting. CEAC correspondence course Before I made a living with his cartoons: “I started making very poor cartoons for my classmates and was inspired by cartoonists using toothpicks dipped in Chinese ink at the Plaza Mayor in Madrid. I discovered pens that I still use today”, paradoxically, paradoxically, from the distance learning course every month. He describes his beginnings with the desired drawings. “The hardest thing for me was the current jokes; It was one thing to let your imagination fly, it was another to be attached to something that happened,” she admits.
On his return from Madrid, In 1972 and with 21 years, It was decided to present it as INFORMATION.who was running then Jesus Prado on Quintana street and “when I returned another day to ask the editor-in-chief how things were going, Fernando GilHe asked if I hadn’t read the newspaper because that day first out”. The first was a joke that a patient in the operating room couldn’t help but stare in front of the nurse, a bit erotic for the Franco era. “Maybe I wouldn’t do this for the newspaper today.because I mostly look at the news, first local, then national or international, but i still put breasts from time to time. I rarely joke beforehand, but there’s always one in the fridge of a bed sex party. Why can’t it be a sex joke?”, states Enrique, aware that graphic humor is also a reflection of changes in society: “Zipi and Zape will be banned todayOr Bwana or Rompetechos, a man who gives away everything he can’t see… Of course, there was another conscience in the 70s.. I remember a drawing Chumi Chumez ‘Today I hit you harder than yesterday but less than tomorrow’ or Gila, who made crippling jokes and didn’t seem like a joke. Today with this sensitivity of political correctness and the care of languageespecially with texts You have to walk carefully.”
now he graphic humorthe veteran thinks, carries something bigger with him social burden. “This is much more important. Humor is more critical, can be more helpful in dealing with issues such as suicide, bullying or gender violence, and can condemn more.. is already widely used. awareness weaponAnd that’s very important, more than making people laugh, but they do too,” says Enrique, who is not afraid to give vignettes about these topics, “but without anything that might cause misunderstanding or ambiguity. smile. There are definitely things you need to be clear about.”
He, she adds, tries not to offend anyone “and If I can avoid an annoying word, I avoid it, but I say what I want to say”, sometimes knowing why rashes -some unsuccessful lawsuits or withdrawal of greetings from public figures-“but I’ve got a lot of more friends than enemiesDespite admitting without revealing the details, the cartoonist, who doesn’t regret any of his jokes, initially tells the cartoonist that “I nearly got the newspaper in trouble with Franco once.”
“The drawing will be good, bad, or average, but Right or wrong, I am fully responsible for what I do.. Never never, The newspaper never gave me a guide. from what I have to say or put. We all know where we work, but sometimes the jokes came up with an opinion contrary to the information. So I could always say what I wanted and I always felt very free.” half a century later this paper’s contribution to its readers “I tried to bring some criticism and humor, reflects the problems of my city. One way to fix things is to expose what isn’t working.I also pull out the good stuff, and if I don’t succeed, I’ll keep trying, as I plan to do for another 20-30 years”.
According to that, The topics covered in the province have not changed much in fifty years. -“We continue with problems such as garbage, circulation, the famous axle with Elche, the congress palace…” he remembers – but he always tries to get involved. “aubergine” Although he reveals that his biggest “torture” – lovingly – was the strip he made on the education pages, Chalk, with his character ticita on subjects with very little data – a camp, some English lessons – on subjects that should serve as “stimulators” to children.
if they ask what to draw for tomorrow’s jokeUntil shortly before posting the sketch, it will reply “about, I have no idea”, but will definitely try to do something “close to current events” and with minimal text. “I’ve spent fifty years saying nothing or trying to say the least that can fit in a sandwich. I should try to hit zero if I can.”highlights drawer who still needs to post a joke “At the end of the war in Ukraine”.