The wildly popular author of the Mortadelo and Filemón books, which started life in 1958 and went on to entertain millions of children, continued working until soon before his death
Tributes have poured in for the Spanish cartoonist Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, creator of the much-loved strip Mortadelo and Filemón, who died on Saturday aged 87.
Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, tweeted: “You made life much more fun for generations. We’ll miss you.”
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