Trino Camacho

José Trinidad Camacho Orozco (Guadalajara, Jalisco, August 20, 1961) is a Mexican caricaturist and cartoonist, better known by his stage name Trino. Owner of an acidic and direct humor, his caricatures cover very different themes, from children's jokes to the crudest political criticism.

Biography

He studied a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESO), in Guadalajara. He was part of a group of young people from that city that published the magazine Galimatías, and later the humor supplement The Abalone's Mother.

From a very young age he began his career in caricature making drawings for his classmates. Later he made different comics for different newspapers in Guadalajara and later in Mexico City, in the newspaper La Jornada. Currently he publishes his strips in the Grupo Reforma newspapers: Crónicas marcianas, Fables of Cops and Robbers, King Chiquito, Pipo and Don Calvino, Ruleteros and Don Taquero.

In radio he has carried out projects since the 1980s such as El festín de los marranos, Gárgaras, Cucamonga, Tripas de gato, La pitaya Ye-yé and since 2009 he has had the weekly program La chora endless with Jis on radio UDG and radio UNAM.

He participated with Andrés Bustamante, the Güiri-Güiri in the television program La Cabin and A chat a su casa. He has also done dubbing of old movies for television. He is the father of the dubbing of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Voces de Trino, along with Jis, Toño Urrutia, Paco Navarrete in the late 1980s.^{[citation required]}

In addition, he has illustrated children's texts for several publishers, for example, with the Fondo de Cultura Económica, El Enmascarado de Lata (2004); It was you (2006), texts by Vivian Manzur, For a screw (2009) and All the bears are left-handed (2010), both texts by Ignacio Padilla. With Trillas, in 2006, the book on addiction prevention and information From fiction to addiction, with text by H. Brocca. The Mexican Constitution illustrated by Trino, Trilce publishing house, 2005. With the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) he participated in the Reading Corner project What do you like most?, Mr. Don Gato, Cirilo among others. In addition to having illustrated the SEP textbooks for first and fifth grade.

Publications

Among its characters or strips are:

• Unknown Stories of Independence and RevolutionSeptember 2010
• El Santos contra la Tetona Mendoza, collection of ten volumes
• Fables of police and thieves, collection of three volumes
• Martian Chronicles, collection of four volumes
• Pipo and Don Calvin
• Don Taquero
• King Chiquito
• Mysteries Charros
• Rulers
• Chronicles of a dandyin GQ Mexico

Prizes and distinctions

• 2000 Mexico National Journalism Award
• 2006 Pagés Llergo Award to the best caricaturist of the year.
• 2022 Inkpot Award delivered by the San Diego Comic-Con.
• 2022 Prize The Catrina that is delivered at the International Meeting of Comics and Historieta (EICH) during the International Book Fair of Guadalajara for his career as a cartoonist. Trino Camacho is the first covert caricaturist who is recipient of in the history of this recognition.