Ángel Zamarripa

[1][2] He completed high school in Mexico City and then enrolled into the Academy of San Carlos in 1929, studying under Germán Gedovius, Fidias Elizondo, Sóstenes Ortega, Francisco de la Torre and Pastor Velázquez.

[1][3] Starting in 1948, he exhibited his graphic work individually and collective in Mexico the United States, Asia, Europe and South America.

[1][3] His other activities included an advertising seminar from 1967 to 1969 at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Gráficas and collaboration on a column with Henry Loubet, Jr. with the two signing as “Tin” and Ton.”[1][2] Despite the satirical nature of much of his work, he received recognition from politicians such as former U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife Lady Bird Johnson.

[2][3] Although he created some characters such as Thorson (a parody of Tarzan) as well as Hanz and Fritz,[2] Jorge Piño Sandoval called him a “cartoonist of situations, of moments, more than of the latest news than of characters.”[1] Zamarripa's graphic style was satirical.

There have been cases in other countries where cartoons have so influenced people that, as a result of the information contained in the drawing, prominent figures have been overthrown.”[1]