Abel Quezada - Artist Info

About Abel Quezada

  • Biography

    Abel Quezada was a prominent Mexican painter, illustrator and caricaturist whose work has contained some social, political and cultural criticism of the late twentieth century.

    Arriving in Mexico City, he began his career making his first comics in the magazine Chamaco Chico, then published several autobiographical storybooks and collaborated for the newspaper Ovaciones and published Los Tarzanes and Los Mariachis in the magazine Pinocho. In 1946, he traveled to New York, where he spent three years making illustrations for advertisements.

    Returning to Mexico momentarily, at this time he invented the character Tapado and worked for Novedades and "Excélsior. He was always a vi...

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