“cartoonist”
Rafael Barajas.
Mexico, Born 1956
Rafael Barajas Durán, better known by his pen name El Fisgón ("The Rubbernecker" or "The Peeper" in Spanish) is a Mexican cartoonist and illustrator who received the 1999 National Journalism Prize of Mexico for Editorial Cartooning. The son of a schoolteacher and a psychoanalyst, Barajas was born on 1 January 1956 in Mexico City and graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in architecture. At the age of 20 he decided to become a cartoonist and eventually sent collaborations to the Sunday supplement of Unomásuno (1981 to 1984), designed covers for Nexos magazine (1984 to 1986) and received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003) to study dissenting political cartoonists in Mexico who worked between 1872 and 1910.
Biodata
- Born
- 1956, Mexico City
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Work
- cartoonist, writer, painter, caricaturist
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