Small Sample of a Giant Cartoonist

Small Sample of a Giant Cartoonist

Small sample of a giant cartoonist is the recent exhibition of the incomparable artist and cartoonist Arturo Yépez that will be available to the public from June 8 to 28 at the Casa Aboy Cultural Center in Puerto Rico. The sample, which is made up of 24 cartoons, was meticulously selected by colleague Kike Estrada, from Yépez's book entitled My Top 100. In this exhibition the public will be able to appreciate the great cartoonish art of illustrations that make up a variety of themes.

Small Sample of a Giant Cartoonist


Small sample of a giant cartoonist is the recent exhibition of the incomparable artist and cartoonist Arturo Yépez that will be available to the public from June 8 to 28 at the Casa Aboy Cultural Center in Puerto Rico.

The sample, which is made up of 24 cartoons, was meticulously selected by colleague Kike Estrada, from Yépez's book entitled My Top 100. In this exhibition the public will be able to appreciate the great cartoonish art of illustrations that make up a variety of themes.

Yépez, who has a career spanning more than 50 years, has always stood out for his sharp pencil and his peculiar way of conveying a message on any situation of a political, social, cultural or economic nature through cartoons. His spectacular talent for communicating through his pen has become an important part of Puerto Rican history.

His passion for art arises from an early age since the artist himself remembers that since he was little he spent his time scribbling even on the walls. For this reason, after finishing his high school studies in South America, he decided to go to New York to exercise his talent as a cartoonist.

He had the opportunity to publish cartoons in the New York Time Review, Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Saturday Review, Harper's, Saturday Evening Post among others.

Likewise, he worked as editorial cartoons for the Latin American Times newspaper. In addition, he edited Caricatour, a monthly political satire magazine in New York.

He then settles in Puerto Rico where he excelled for 24 years doing political cartoons in the newspaper El Vocero. Although prior to this he also worked in the satirical cartoon and editorial in the newspapers El Mundo and the San Juan Star.

Yépez's artistic trajectory has been fundamentally important on the island of Puerto Rico. Apart from his artistic influence as a cartoonist in PR and in documenting Puerto Rican satire, he was the founder of the PR Cartoonist Association where he served as president until recently. He also wrote the book: Humor to whom humor deserves, the story and courageous history of political satire in PR.

Without a doubt, Yépez has been one of the key artists and promoters of history, documented through Puerto Rican satire through his drawings. His cartoons are a legacy of the rich tradition of humor that exists on the Caribbean island.

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