Bernardo Vergara (Pamplona, 1966) is a Spanish cartoonist.
Biography He began his career in the world of comics in the 1980s, in the fanzine of Pamplona Hamelín, and later, along with other artists of this fanzine, went to work with the comic magazine TMEO. In the early 1990s, he also worked in magazines of publisher Ediciones B such as Mortadelo or Zipi y Zape. Later he worked for agencies, as well as newspapers such as Diario del Altoaragón, El Mundo, El País or Heraldo de Aragón.
In 1999 he joined the team of collaborators of El Jueves, for which he created the character of Urbano. Alongside José Luis Agreda he created for that magazine the strip Jaula Magna with jokes about the university world. For the children's magazine Mister K he created, alongside EnriqueCarlos, the strip Harry Pórrez, a Harry Potter parody.ALCÁZAR, F. J. (2005). Caso clínico: Revista Mister K, tebeosfera.PONS, Álvaro (11/11/2005). Niños, La cárcel de papel. Also for El Jueves he created the series Los Ilegales, a satirical view of the problems of the illegal immigrants in Spain.
He collaborated with the daily newspaper Público with the strip Piso para cuatro and he publishes jokes for the online newspaper eldiario.es.
Abandonment of El Jueves
In June 2014, Vergara announced his departure from the magazine El Jueves after the editorial RBA not allowed to publish a cover with a joke which referenced the abdication of the king of Spain, Juan Carlos I. Other cartoonist also left the magazine. Those comic artist published on 18 June, the day before the coronation of Philip VI, an online comic with jokes about the event titled Orgullo y satisfacción. He was later hired by the monthly satirical magazine Mongolia.Mongolia tiene cuatro nuevos habitantes: Alcázar, Fontdevila, Monteys y Vergara en revistamongolia.com
Work AñosTitleTipePublicationDetails1990BenjamínSeriesSuper Zipi y Zape (Ediciones B)1991Casa PacoSeriesMortadelo Extra (Ediciones B)1992El enemigo del mundo enteroMonographyEzten Kultur TaldeaCollaboration1998KarolinoSeriesMala Impresión1998Ficciones realesSeriesMala Impresión1998Los ChapasSeriesEl JuevesDrawn by José Luis Ágreda 1999Ficciones realesMonographyMegamultimedia1999UrbanoSeriesEl Jueves1999Los retractiladosSeriesEl País de las Tentaciones2001Manual de instrucciones para libros de instruccionesAstiberri2003Las alegres inconveniencias de Urbano. Mi colega invitaMonographyAstiberri. 2005Harry Pórrez y el misterio del Santo GrialLos libros de Mister K, nº2. Ediciones El Jueves. .10/2008La historia del cómic de E. H. GombrichShort strip"Dos veces breve" nº 16Written by Santiago García2009Harry Pórrez y el as en la manga de CondemortEdiciones El Jueves. .2009El mundo según PtolomeoDiábolo Ediciones.
References
External links Vergara in Lambiek comiclopedia