Nationality Mexican | Name El Fisgon | |
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Full Name Rafael Barajas Duran Awards National Journalism Prize for Editorial Cartooning (Mexico, 1999). | ||
¿Para qué leer? Rafael Barajas Durán, El Fisgón
Rafael Barajas “El Fisgón”
Rafael Barajas Durán, better known by his pen name El Fisgón ("The Rubbernecker" or "The Peeper" in Spanish) is a Mexican cartoonist and illustrator who received the 1999 National Journalism Prize of Mexico for Editorial Cartooning.
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The son of a schoolteacher and a psychoanalyst, Barajas was born on 1 January 1956 in Mexico City and graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in Architecture. At the age of 20 he decided to become a cartoonist and eventually sent collaborations to the Sunday supplement of Unomásuno (1981–1984), designed covers for Nexos magazine (1984–1986) and received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003) to study dissenting political cartoonists in Mexico who worked between 1872 and 1910.
According to himself, Barajas is also a committed leftist activist who has led campaigns to support the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas and regularly promote student involvement in politics. He has co-directed satirical magazines such as El Chahuistle (1994–1997) and El Chamuco y los hijos del Averno (1997–2000) and, since 1984, he contributes regularly to La Jornada, a left-leaning newspaper published in the Mexican capital.
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