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On July 19, 2007 was the incomparable Roberto "The Black" Fontanarrosa. Rarely a death caused much grief in general, however, is softened by its endearing characters, cartoons, jokes and stories.
"In possibly tell me that I am a comic writer, at best. And it is true. I am not too interested in the definition given to me. Do not aspire to the Nobel. I paid I am very well when someone is me about me and said: I really laugh with your book. " Roberto Fontanarrosa
Designer, graphic humorist, writer and football fan and Rosario Central, unconditional friend, remind Fontanarrosa is an easy exercise to memory and comfortable smiles.
Born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, a November 26, 1944. His career began as a cartoonist and humorous quality, security and speed that made quickly and prolifically highlighted. Among his best-known are the bully Boogie oil, gaucho Odorless Pereyra Mendieta and her dog and her sister Rosa. His fame transcended borders: their stories were published in Latin America.
He was a passionate football, which he dedicated many of his works, not only literary but graphic. Fontanarrosa also because it was a fertile writer of novels and short stories unforgettable, such as Best Sellers, Area 18, Gans, None of the other world, the greatest of my faults, you never know, The world has experienced the wrong table and the Galanes to name a few.
He was a dear friend and without a true farmer of friendship, of meeting with those affected. In her spare time, I could find with friends or alone at the bar Cairo, in Rosario, sitting on the metaphorical "Galanes the table," the scene of many of his best stories. In 90, the board moved to bar the reopening of the headquarters to Cairo.
It was also a provocative elegance. His strong defense of the use of curse words at the Third Congress of the Spanish language which developed in Rosario in November 2004, will be forever in history.
The recognition also arrived. On April 26, 2006, the Senate gave the Honors Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, in recognition of his vast career and contributions to culture argentina. That same year, was also on the International Book Fair in Guadalajara (Mexico), with the prize "La Catrina" recognition is given each year at the International Cartoon and Caricature.
In 2003, she was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that one was slowly broken through their physical abilities but not his spirit. In 2006 went to use a wheelchair and in January 2007 had to announce that it would draw her comics, and that he had lost complete control of his right hand. However he clarified that he would continue writing scripts for the characters. Since then, Crist was commissioned to illustrate his jokes loose while Salas Oscar did the same with their stories of Odorless Pereyra.
He died on July 19, 2007, at the age of 62 years, a victim of cardiac arrest.
The news of his death was a genuine national mourning: Hundreds of ordinary citizens, writers, artists, the country was plunged into a deep pain that has no explanation of any kind. Ido was a nice guy, easy, which made us laugh.
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