Magu

Bulmaro Castellanos Loza, better known as Magú (San Miguel el Alto, Jalisco; 1944), is a Mexican cartoonist.

Biography

He studied law, worked as a teller in a branch of the National Bank of Mexico, until he tried his luck in a contest for the newspaper El Universal and won the right to be published.

He has collaborated with El Mitote Ilustrado, Revista de Revistas, La Garrapata, Proceso, Unomásuno and La Jornada, where he has created comic supplements, such as Histerietas, El tataranieto del Ahuizote and others. He founded the magazine El Papa del Ahuizote and the blog Sacatrapos , along with several well-known cartoonists, such as Perujo, Luis Fernando, Jabaz and others. He is in charge of illustrating the gazette and various posters of the National Polytechnic Institute. From the blog Sacatrapos the collective of the same name was derived, in which Rictus, Alarcón, Tacho, Sirako and Kabeza participate, in addition to him.

He has also been a union leader.

Renowned caricaturist for the newspaper La Jornada, he published a book titled El cura Hidalgo, ten balcones y un balconeado. He was winner of the 1982 Mexican National Journalism Award, for his cartoon work.

He has also been awarded the Catrina in 2011, an award that has been awarded at the Guadalajara International Book Fair since 2002 to cartoonists who have an important career in the country.