El Fisgón
Rafael Barajas Durán, better known by his pen name El Fisgón is a Mexican cartoonist and illustrator who received the 1999 National Journalism Prize of Mexico for Editorial Cartooning.
The son of a schoolteacher and a psychoanalyst, Barajas was born on 1 January 1956 in Mexico City and graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in Architecture. At the age of 20 he decided to become a cartoonist and eventually sent collaborations to the Sunday supplement of Unomásuno, designed covers for Nexos magazine and received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study dissenting political cartoonists in Mexico who worked between 1872 and 1910.
According to himself, Barajas is also a committed leftist activist who has led campaigns to support the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas and regularly promote student involvement in politics. He has co-directed satirical magazines such as El Chahuistle and El Chamuco y los hijos del Averno and, since 1984, he contributes regularly to La Jornada, a left-leaning newspaper published in the Mexican capital.Books
- Sobras escogidas.
- Me lleva el TLC.
- El sexenio me da risa.
- Cómo sobrevivir al neoliberalismo sin dejar de ser mexicano.
- Hacia un despiporre global de excelencia y calidad.
- La historia de un país en caricatura.
- El país de El Ahuizote.
- El país del Llorón de Icamole.
- Cómo triunfar en la globalización.
- La bola de la Independencia.
- Cómo la hacen de Pemex.
- Sólo me río cuando me duele.
- Dulce venganza.
- La vendedora de nubes.
