Gaby Vargas

National
Always was inventing personages and words
Gabriel Vargas
By: Carlos Damián August 5, 2010
His work is a classic of the century XXI
México. – We have had the good luck of knowing Gabriel Vargas (GV) and I have underlined in my written the huge qualities, the outline of the personages, at the same time simple and of a great expressive funny; the sense of the humor that is going of the naturalist record to the satirical fantasy; the use of the popular speech, creative, convincing and that cause addiction; the conversion of the typical vicinity and archetypical of the downtown area of Mexico or of the historical center; the names of the personages, in itself same a portentous birthday revolt, the sumptuous methods to denote the happiness of the poverty, and the manner in which the happiness in the poverty is to go an and to come from the relax to the resignation and of return; the fabric of the situations in the neighborhood because Harún - Al Raschild (don Gabriel) is not tired of hearing to Scherezada (Borola), and in the summit the roguish, the gender where neither the hare nor the tortoise will be explained ever as in the marathon and before of the exit shot, someone already was kept the goal in the pocket.

Ouch, readers! Gotcha, women and old men: Folks, expressions that go from mode and disasters that are forgotten to the not to fit but ruins in the report! Idler children that are not rented them to help their mothers buried under a clothes mountain, the women that take the roof of their neighborhood because the bottlenecks in the peak hours of the streets and large avenues them hinder be launched to the day-to-dayness from the monument to the Revolution. What has passed with the public of don Jilemón Metralla y Bomba, the Güen Caperuza, Cuataneta, don Regino, doña Borola, aunt Cristeta, Ruperto Tacuche, Bella Bellota, Divina Chuy, don Susano Cantarranas, Briagoberto Memelas, Juanón Tepeorochas, doña Gamucita, Avelino Pilongano, Sinfónico Fonseca, Satán Carroña, Foforito, Wilso, Macuca, Tractor, the “chorros” millionaire y Reginito.

Where were they going? Among other things they were married, they go away of neighborhood, were went to the hills, aged and were embittered upon seeing that nobody was recalling that glorious night in which, with its companion, earned the championship of “danzon”. They deserted of the Center or abandoned it, hem gave a hitch to the next stop of the social ascent, were mocked moderately of their origins, and ransacked the memories in the familiar holidays. They were extended in their bed as urban stain and where they were carried to their vocabulary of on Sundays from "already were you quiet “Borola”, and you do not disturb to the neighbors with that of the fact that you are an African tribe that is going of hunt and we are the lions, just it sees as remained don “Turulato” with the nailed arrow in which the back loses its honest name."

They were integrated to the funeral reservation army and their last words were "ni chicho ni chacho, “aquí nomás Tacho"; "fíjate que suave"; "ahí está el detalle"; “aquí nomás como pastoreando one mexicano pollo”; “ontoy rentoy”; “fijate Marcelino, así se despide uno de la broza”; “llégale campeón”; “échale ganas”; “a que perdí todo el acento de Tepito, champ”.

They were go away of vacation to Acapulco, in the sea the better-tasting life, to Puerto Vallarta, in the sea we want you much more, to Puerto Escondido, with the sun, the moon and the stars, to the highway because there is pricked the tires of the car scullion, in the all sea is happiness. They were bring faced to faced to the man that put up the price up, to the man that work with wickedness, guy of the two hundred grams by kilogram, to the man that you payment promissory note that “doña Tallulah”, already you feeling affectionate, to the homespun, to the “zopilote” of the congealed rents, to the swindlers and to chiefs of the new social accessions, my Rober at six ó clock it is the meeting of the neighbors. They were amused with the characterizations of the neighborhoods in the frivolous theatre ("Tiene razón el Cachuchas"), in the cinema (“Amorcito corazón, ya tengo tentación…”), on the television (“El Chavo del ocho”), and were realized late of the fact that inhabited the mythical zone where each living room was harboring an extraordinary history. Para que averiguas Popochas …

It is rented the past and is raffle the future, The nation is not a comic, however its inhabitants continue in the day-to-dayness reflected in comic. But many other are substantial part of the infancy, the adolescence the collectivities maturity that in the comic were tested as readers, and that thanks to the comic entered to the melodrama and enjoyable it.

This entire figure in the merits and feats list of a satirical draftsman, of a cartoonist with more than seven decades of great popular and extraordinary inventiveness man. With words of Carlos Monsiváis in one of his numerous tributes that received in life this extraordinary personage from the Mexican culture. That is put standing the collective and aim to him a warm ovation to the creative of the comics in Mexico. (La Jornada, cultura, p. 5a, May 26, 2010).