The San José mortuary in Granada hosts its wake this Saturday afternoon from 6 pm to 10 pm in room number 6 | The farewell will be on Sunday at 12 in the cemetery of the capital
The graphic humorist and cartoonist from Almeria based in Granada, Francisco Martín Morales, has died this Saturday at the age of 76 in the capital of Granada. In Carataunas, a small Alpujarreño town where he lived, the bell tolls in his memory this morning. The San José funeral home hosts his wake this Saturday afternoon from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in room number 6. The farewell will be this Sunday at 12:00 p.m. in the same cemetery and then his cremation will take place.
Martín Morales suffered a serious accident at his farmhouse in Carataunas in August 2010 when a cypress tree fell on him that he was felling in his garden, which caused him serious injuries and abruptly interrupted his career. He underwent life or death surgery to perform a decompressive craniectomy, in order to remove the pieces of bone that had been embedded in the brain and he was hospitalized for seven months in the Traumatology Hospital of Granada.
Worked in various media
Martín Morales was born in Almería in 1946, but spent his entire life in Granada, in love with the Alpujarra. He started working as a humorist at IDEAL and later studied journalism in Madrid.
In the 1960s, he collaborated on the ‘Nuevo Diario’, ‘Mundo Diario’, the magazine ‘Mundo de Barcelona’, ‘El Jueves’ and the OTR agency. He was a founding contributor to the magazine ‘Por Favor’ and then joined Grupo Z to work, publishing his jokes in several of their magazines and newspapers. Until the day of the accident he collaborated with ‘ABC’ and with the Interviú magazine. In addition, he is the author of several books of graphic humor, among which ‘La España de Martinmorales’ and ‘La Guerra de los golfos’ stand out.
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