12 Facts About Roberto Fontanarrosa

Roberto Fontanarrosa created two hugely popular comic strips, as well as their parodic protagonists: Inodoro Pereyra, a gaucho, and Boogie, el aceitoso, a gun-for-hire.

Roberto Fontanarrosa created the comic book Los Clasicos segun Fontanarrosa, which contained a selection of humorous parodies of universal literature mainstays originally published in the magazine Chaupinela, in the 1970s.

Roberto Fontanarrosa was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, and he lived and worked there until his death.

Roberto Fontanarrosa was widely known by the affectionate nickname El Negro.

Roberto Fontanarrosa began his career writing and drawing comic strips and later branched out into writing narratives with short stories, especially about football.

Simultaneously with his comic book career, Roberto Fontanarrosa went on to write three novels and seven books of short stories, all of them filled with a combination of subtle and broad humor.

Roberto Fontanarrosa's work has been seen in different Latin American newspapers including Argentine Clarin, Colombian El tiempo, Uruguayan La Republica, and Mexican magazine Proceso.

Roberto Fontanarrosa was granted the Platinum Konex Award in 1994, and the Konex Merit Diploma in 1992,2004 and 2012.

In November 2007, a posthumous work of Roberto Fontanarrosa was made public: the animated film Fierro was released, for which he had co-written the script and designed all the characters shortly before his death.

Roberto Fontanarrosa continued to work, and participated in the meetings of the Third International Congress of the Spanish Language, in 2004, where he gave a humorous lecture about taboo words and the final speech.

On 19 July 2007, Roberto Fontanarrosa suffered a respiratory failure, and was taken to a hospital.

The procession stopped beside the Gigante de Arroyito stadium and then continued north to the neighbouring city of Granadero Baigorria, where Roberto Fontanarrosa was buried at the Parque de la Eternidad cemetery.