Oscar Gonzalez Loyo

Oscar González Loyo (Mexico City, April 11, 1959 - February 7, 2021) was a Mexican comic artist, cartoonist and cartoonist, creator of the comic Karmatrón and the Transformablesand one of the founding members of ¡Ka-Boom! Study!

Biography

He was born on April 11, 1959 in Mexico City. He is the son of the also cartoonist Oscar González Guerrero. González Loyo had contact in his childhood with many Mexican comics professionals from the 50s-70s, who eventually exerted their influence on his own art. He studied until the seventh semester of the Graphic Design Degree at the National School of Arts. Plastics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, from which he dropped out in 1980, after which he decided to dedicate himself completely to the production of comics in Mexico.

In 1973 he began his professional career, drawing back covers for the magazine Las Aventuras de Capulina, with the sections: "Learn to draw", for Editormex Mexicana S.A. In 1982 he made his first comic as a titular artist: "Las Aventuras de Parchís". In 1985 he drew 10 issues of & # 34; Katy the Caterpillar & # 34; for Editorial Ejea. In February 1986, "Karmatron and the Transformables", a comic of his own authorship, was released for sale, being published for 298 weekly issues. This comic has become his iconic work.

In the late 1980s, he created the cover art for the VHS and Laserdisc video editions of the American versions of the Astroboy, Kimba the White Lion, and Gigantor series. He collaborated on various Mexican titles such as Las Aventuras de Cepillín, El Monje Loco, and the American publications Los Picapiedra, The New Speed Racer , Tiny Toons, Looney Tunes..

In 1997 he was appointed Animation Director of Plaza Sésamo for Latin America, a Televisa production, where he created and designed the characters for the cartoons of the television program of the year 1997. In 1998 he joined the creative department of Bongo Comics, collaborating in The Simpsons comic strips for the London Times newspaper. For his collaboration in the team that made the horror special Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror' #5, became the second Mexican cartoonist, and the first born in Mexico, to win the Will Eisner Award, sharing the award along with Jill Thompson, Steve Steere Jr., Scott Shaw!, Sergio Aragonés, and Doug TenNapel.

Throughout his career, Óscar González Loyo also worked with other artists in the comics medium, such as: Humberto Ramos, Armando Anguiano, Ángel Mora, José Cabezas, Héctor Macedo, José Pacindo, Víctor Chombeaux, Fausto Buendía, among others.

On February 7, 2021, González Loyo died due to complications related to several medical conditions.

Ka-Boom! Study

González Loyo founded ¡Ka-Boom! He studied in 1994 and held the lifelong position of general director and editor-in-chief of his same company, until his death due to natural causes. In 2002 the studio published a new edition of Karmatrón and the Transformables, which had 20 published issues.

Members of the Ka-boom studio have participated in the dissemination of comics as art and have appeared on television and radio programs. Likewise, throughout their career they have been invited to give lectures in different States of the Mexican Republic.