Francisco Ibáñez Talavera facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Francisco Ibáñez
Ibáñez in 2006
Born	Francisco Ibáñez Talavera (1936-03-15)15 March 1936 Barcelona, Spain
Died	15 July 2023(2023-07-15) (aged 87) Barcelona, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Area(s)	Writer, artist
Pseudonym(s)	Ibáñez
Notable works	Mort & Phil
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Francisco Ibáñez Talavera (15 March 1936 – 15 July 2023) was a Spanish comic book artist and writer.

Ibáñez was one of the most prolific and well-known authors in Spain, with popular comics such as Mort & Phil, Rompetechos, 13, Rue del Percebe, El botones Sacarino, Pepe Gotera y Otilio, and Chicha, Tato y Clodoveo.

Early life

Ibáñez was born on 15 March 1936 in Barcelona, four months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. His family was lower middle class, and he was the son of a Valencian father and an Andalusian mother, and had three siblings. As a child, Ibáñez showed a fondness for comic books and comic cinema from the United States. In October 1947, at the age of eleven, he published his first drawing in the magazine Chicos.

After finishing his primary education at the Guimerá Schools, Ibáñez began to study accounting, banking and mercantile expertise and, between 1950 and 1957, he worked as a bellboy and, subsequently, as portfolio and risk assistant, at the Banco Español de Crédito, a job that in 1952 later he began to combine with collaborations in the magazines Nicolás, Chicolino, La hora del recreo, Alex, Liliput, El Barbas and above all in the two humorous mastheads of Editorial Marco [es]: La Risa and Hipo, Monito y Fifí. In them he created covers and series such as Kokolo (1952), Melenas (1954), Don Usura (1955) and Haciendo el indio (1955), the first of certain success of the author, as it was also reproduced in the weekly supplement of La Prensa of Barcelona.

Career

In the summer of 1957, Ibáñez, who was already earning more as a cartoonist than as a portfolio and risk assistant in banking, decided to devote himself completely to comics and, besides continuing to collaborate with the publications of Editorial Marco, he joined the staff of Paseo infantil, which disappeared soon after and where he created series such as Pepe Roña and continued the series Loony by Alfons Figueras.

Simultaneously, in August he began to collaborate with the powerful Editorial Bruguera which at that time was in dire need of new cartoonists after the departure of its main artists to Tío Vivo [es]. At Bruguera Ibáñez, initially contributed pages of jokes on a specific subject or sport for Pulgarcito and the central pages of El DDT and Selecciones de Humor de El DDT, and as comic book artist Armando Matías Guiu explained, "the joke was the first step to get a character in the magazines". He left Editorial Bruguera in 1985.

In 1958 Mortadelo y Filemón appeared for the first time in the publication Pulgarcito. Subsequently, Ibáñez created several other characters. Since 1988, he had drawn six new Mortadelo y Filemón albums per year, many of which incorporated issues of the day.

In 1994, he received the Grand Prize of the Salón del Cómic de Barcelona and in 2001 he was awarded the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes (Gold Medal for Contributions to the Fine Arts). He received the Premios Notario del Humor award in 2008 from the University of Alicante.

Personal life and death

Ibáñez married Remedios Solera Sánchez in 1966, with whom he had two daughters.

Ibáñez died in Barcelona on 15 July 2023, at the age of 87.

Works

• Mortadelo y Filemón, agencia de información (1958).
• La familia Trapisonda, un grupito que es la monda (1958)
• 13, Rue del Percebe (1961)
• Godofredo y Pascualino viven del deporte fino (1961)
• Ande, ríase usté con el arca de Noé (1961)
• El botones Sacarino (1963)
• Rompetechos (1964)
• Pepe Gotera y Otilio (1966)
• Chicha, Tato y Clodoveo (1986)
• 7, Rebolling Street (1987)
• Doña Pura y Doña Pera vecinas de la escalera
• Don Pedrito que está como nunca
• El doctor esparadrapo y su ayudante Gazapo
• Tete Cohete

Honours

• Grand Prize of the International Comic Fair of Barcelona for his career (1994)
• Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2002)
• Oso Award for Lifetime Achievement of the International Comic Fair of Madrid ("Expocómic 2002")

See also

In Spanish: Francisco Ibáñez para niños