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Tabare Gomez Laborde

Known artistically as Tabaré, he was born in La Paz, Canelones, Uruguay on August 21, 1948. He was a Uruguayan cartoonist, humorist and artist, author of comic strips, cartoons and book illustrator, and known especially in Latin America for his strip "Diógenes y el Linyera", published without interruption since 1977 in the newspaper "Clarín" of Buenos Aires. Tabaré was a self-taught cartoonist who went through various work activities until he joined an advertising agency in Montevideo, work that would define his professional career. He also drew for different magazines in Montevideo such as "Despegue" (1971), "La Chacota" (1972), "La Bocha" (1972) and "Noticias" (1976). Starting in 1969, he began to publish his work in the Argentine media, a country where he has resided since 1974. He worked with various screenwriters such as Héctor García Blanco, Aquiles Fabregat, Jorge Barale, among others. He died in Turdera, Lomas de Zamora, at the age of 74 on July 4, 2023 of pancreatic cancer. Comic books • “Diógenes y el Linyera” - Comic strip with more than 9000 editions on the back cover of the “Clarín” newspaper in Buenos Aires. It was published without interruption since 1977. It was created by Tabaré, Jorge Guinzburg and Carlos Abrevaya. The last two wrote the scripts until 1993. The scriptwriter from 1996 to 2006 was Héctor García Blanco. From that moment on, Tabaré took charge of the scripts. • “The adventures of a stringer and his dog” (Diogenes), with brief dialogues that always show a satire of social and political reality from the perspective of two urban vagabonds. • “El cacique Paja Brava” - Picaresque cartoon with a script by Aquiles Fabregat, has 24 chapters published in the Argentine magazines “Satiricón” and “Humor Registrado”, as well as in other media. • “Eustaquio” - Character from the short humorous stories called “Romancero del Eustaquio el impoluto”, a picaresque comic with a script by Fabre and fifteen chapters published in the magazine “Humor Registrado”. • “Don Chipote de la Pampa” - Caricature "in non-collectible installments". A parody of Don Quixote de la Mancha and Martín Fierro.