From Goomer to politics Story of a strip
Nacho Moreno, comic book scriptwriter, creator of the
Goomer
series
along with Ricardo Martínez, political cartoonist in EL MUNDO,
writer, editor and culinary anti-disseminator
, has died in Cádiz at age 65, struck down by a disease that manifested itself only a few years ago. weeks.
His legacy could be summarized as a path that leads from
Hermano Lobo
and the satirical magazines of the Transition to
The Simpsons
.
Moreno's humor came
from
Hermano Lobo
and the betrayal of Spanish absurdity, according to his friend and creative partner Ricardo Martínez. "It was a humor of pure wit.
Quick, reflexes, the kind that leaves you wondering, where does this man get his ideas from?
I remember a cartoon we did in an election in which Aznar and Felipe González faced each other, already at that time. de Filesa and the corruption of the PSOE. We drew them both as boxers and put a referee in the middle. The referee said: 'may the best man win.' And someone, from behind, gave him the reply and said: 'No, no , may the other win. '" It is impossible not to remember Ramón's famous cartoon in
Hermano Lobo
: "
Either us or the chaos!
/ Chaos, chaos!
/ It doesn't matter, it's us too! ".
Nacho Moreno, portrayed by Ricardo.
"I came to live in Madrid from Santiago de Chile when I was 12 or 13 years old and Nacho was my friend on the third day of arriving," explains Ricardo.
"Friends of being on the street all day, in the Orense area, playing ball, sharing comics. His father was a lawyer and
wanted him to study Law
. He endured a year and was in Sociology. He was doing things on the radio, he wrote an award-winning crime novel ... I started drawing right away and we did a first version of
Goomer
in the 70s, at the time of
Alien
and
Star Wars
. "
Those first strips about an earthling lost on an absurd planet found an unexpected setting: the pages of the newspaper
Mundo Obrero
. "The director, who was a lovely person, told us that he liked the character a lot, but that he
needed it to have more social content
. We didn't feel like that much, so we left it. I went to live in Miami and stopped working. together until Nacho told me one day that
El País was
releasing a supplement called
Little Country
and that we could resurrect the character.
The truth is that the character was never very childish, he
was a strange presence for
Little Country
".
Ricardo, in fact, explains that Goomer's charm consists in his mischievous side, "in
his mischief
. At first, the series was based on the absurdity of discovering a world of aliens in which everything was incomprehensible. Later, we immediately saw that the vein was Goomer's personality, that rogue side that was later passed on to the rest of the characters. " The cartoonist is the one who makes the simile between his character and
The Simpsons
, born in similar times.
Goomer
, Nacho and Ricardo made the trip to EL MUNDO in 1990. The scriptwriter and cartoonist couple expanded their collaboration and
began to make political cartoons
. "There, the dynamics with which we worked changed. We came to the newspaper, we had to talk more ... Nacho had to be aware of the news of the day. I remember him talking to Javier Ortiz [then head of Opinion of EL MUNDO], asking him how interpret the issues of the day. I would say to him: 'Javier, let's synthesize,
who is the good guy in this mess?
Nacho liked that writing life, but it was difficult for him to live with the daily pressure of the newspaper.'
The political cartoon lasted until 2002;
Goomer
, until 2015 and even had a movie.
Moreno then went to Puerto de Santa María, to start a new life as a family.
He launched a publishing house with his wife, the Oriental Ink Company, and invented a new character,
Falsarius Chef
, an
engrossed
culinary critic and prankster, as was
Goomer
.
This same year, the Norma publishing house has begun to work in compiling all
Goomer
in a complete edition of 2,000 pages.
The project had reunited Ricardo and Nacho with
some of the best pages of their lives
and with their friendship.
"We have all been good guys. Goomer allowed us to bring out our dark side," recalls Ricarddo Martínez.
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