Bernardo Vergara (Pamplona, 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, El Mundo, El País or Heraldo de Aragón.

In 1999 he joined the team of collaborators of El Jueves, 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 parody.[1][2] Also for El Jueves he created the series Los Ilegales, a satirical view of the problems of the illegal immigrants 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. Other cartoonist also left the magazine.[3] 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.[4] He was later hired by the monthly satirical magazine Mongolia.[5]

Work

Años Title Tipe Publication Details
1990 Benjamín Series Super Zipi y Zape (Ediciones B)
1991 Casa Paco Series Mortadelo Extra (Ediciones B)
1992 El enemigo del mundo entero Monography Ezten Kultur Taldea Collaboration
1998 Karolino Series Mala Impresión
1998 Ficciones reales Series Mala Impresión
1998 Los Chapas Series El Jueves Drawn by José Luis Ágreda
1999 Ficciones reales Monography Megamultimedia
1999 Urbano Series El Jueves
1999 Los retractilados Series El País de las Tentaciones
2001 Manual de instrucciones para libros de instrucciones Astiberri
2003 Las alegres inconveniencias de Urbano. Mi colega invita Monography Astiberri. ISBN 84-95825-46-5
2005 Harry Pórrez y el misterio del Santo Grial Los libros de Mister K, nº2. Ediciones El Jueves. ISBN 978-84-9741-563-7.
10/2008 La historia del cómic de E. H. Gombrich Short strip "Dos veces breve" nº 16 Written by Santiago García
2009 Harry Pórrez y el as en la manga de Condemort Ediciones El Jueves. ISBN 978-84-9741-593-4.
2009 El mundo según Ptolomeo Diábolo Ediciones ISBN 978-84-937422-0-1.

References

  1. ↑ ALCÁZAR, F. J. (2005). Caso clínico: Revista Mister K, tebeosfera.
  2. ↑ PONS, Álvaro (11/11/2005). Niños, La cárcel de papel.
  3. ↑ "Dos dibujantes históricos de 'El Jueves' dejan la revista por supuestas presiones de Zarzuela". Vozpopuli.com. 5 June 2014. Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "Los humoristas que dejaron 'El Jueves' lanzan el cómic 'Orgullo y satisfacción'". rtve.es. June 16, 2014. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Mongolia tiene cuatro nuevos habitantes: Alcázar, Fontdevila, Monteys y Vergara en revistamongolia.com
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