Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentinian cartoonist (b. 1944)

Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, known popularly as El Negro Fontanarrosa (November 26, 1944 in Rosario – July 19, 2007), was an Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer. During his extended career, Fontanarrosa became one of the most acclaimed historieta artists of his country, as well as a respected fiction writer. He created the comics and characters of Inodoro Pereyra, a gaucho, and Boogie, el aceitoso, a contract killer. He also created the comic book Los Clásicos según Fontanarrosa, which contained a selection of jokes parodies of classic universal literature published in the magazine Chaupinela in the 1970s. A film was made loosely based on Fontanarrosa's short story Memorias de un wing derecho.