Sixto Valencia Burgos
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Sixto Valencia Burgos is a Mexican cartoon artist based in Mexico City
, best known for taking over the responsibility of drawing famed Mexican
cartoon character Memín Pinguín
.
Valencia was born in Tezontepec, Hidalgo, Mexico
in 1934. He started sketching characters at age 11, when he and his family moved to Mexico City
. Valencia started working as a caricature artist early, and never went to high school.
In 1963, Valencia began drawing the best-selling "Memín Pinguín", a black & white comic book that sold 700,000 copies by 1977.
Between 1992-1993, Valencia was the editor of the Spanish
version of Mad magazine
.
Valencia has been the president of SOMEHI (Syndicate of Mexican comic book artists) since 1998.
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, best known for taking over the responsibility of drawing famed Mexican
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
cartoon character Memín Pinguín
Memín Pinguín
Memín Pinguín is a fictional character from Mexico. Stories featuring him, a very poor Cuban Mexican boy, first appeared in the 1940s and have remained in print since....
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Valencia was born in Tezontepec, Hidalgo, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
in 1934. He started sketching characters at age 11, when he and his family moved to Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
. Valencia started working as a caricature artist early, and never went to high school.
In 1963, Valencia began drawing the best-selling "Memín Pinguín", a black & white comic book that sold 700,000 copies by 1977.
Between 1992-1993, Valencia was the editor of the Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
version of Mad magazine
Mad (magazine)
Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century.The last...
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Valencia has been the president of SOMEHI (Syndicate of Mexican comic book artists) since 1998.