Francisco Martín Morales, known as Martínmorales, was born in Almería in 1946 and died in Granada on 27 August 2022. He was an important and prominent Spanish cartoonist and graphic humorist.
He began his career in the publication "El Faro de Motril", at the age of twenty he began his career in the magazine DDT, from the 60s he collaborated with the newspaper Ideal, Nuevo Diario de Madrid, Mundo Diario, the magazine Mundo de Barcelona, El Jueves. He was a founding contributor to the magazine Por Favor, and from 1994 to 2010 he collaborated with the newspaper ABC.
The cartoonist's legacy is made up of some 15,000 originals covering practically his entire output, from his beginnings in the mid-1960s until the summer of 2010.
The formats are multiple and range from the smallest of the first and second period in ink on paper to the large panoramas for Interviú or Panorama on cardboard.
The collection brings together 45 years of contributions to some fifty publications.
His work can be divided into four periods:
- First period: from DDT to Ideal (1966-1975).
- Second period: the transition (1975-1982).
- Third epoch: the Constitution (1982-1996).
- Fourth period: ABC, Estrella Digital, La Clave, ...