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José Peñarroya, cartoonist of Forcall

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Comic artist José Peñarroya Peñarroya (Forcall, 1910 - Barcelona, 1 May 1975) first worked as an accountant and later moved into animation at Dibujos Animados Chamartín, before joining Editorial Bruguera in 1947. He created characters such as Don Pío (1947), Calixto (1947), Gordito Relleno (1948), Don Berrinche (1948), La familia Pi (1957) and Pitagorín (1966), and contributed to magazines such as Pulgarcito and El DDT. In 1957 he co-founded D.E.R., an alternative publisher of the magazine Tío Vivo, before returning to Bruguera. He is considered one of the "five greats" of Editorial Bruguera in the 1950s, alongside Cifré, Conti, Escobar and Giner, valued for his subtle humour and refined style. He died of a cerebral haemorrhage.

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