Sixto Valencia Burgos

Sixto Valencia Burgos (March 28, 1934 – April 23, 2015) was a Mexican cartoon artist based in Mexico City, best known for taking over the responsibility of drawing famed Mexican cartoon character Memín Pinguín.

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• HOMENAJE A SIXTO VALENCIA CREADOR DE MEMIN PINGUIN
• La mano negra del cartun perez adios a sixto valencia burgos
• References

Valencia was born in Tezontepec, Hidalgo, Mexico in 1934. He started sketching characters at age 11, when he and his family moved to Mexico City. Valencia started working as a caricature artist early, and never went to high school.

In 1963, Valencia began drawing the best-selling "Memín Pinguín", a black & white comic book that sold 700,000 copies by 1977.

Between 1992-1993, Valencia was the editor of the Spanish version of Mad magazine.

Valencia had been the president of SOMEHI (Syndicate of Mexican comic book artists) since 1998.