Hermenegildo Sábat
Hermenegildo Sábat (23 June 1933 – 2 October 2018) was an Uruguayan-born Argentine caricaturist and journalist. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He became a naturalized Argentine citizen in 1980.
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| Born | 23 June 1933 |
| Died | 2 October 2018 (aged 85) |
| Occupation | Journalist, caricaturist, jazz |
| Years active | 1955–2018 |
| Spouse(s) | Blanca Rodríguez |
| Website | www.hermenegildosabat.com.ar |
Montevideo's leading news journal, El País, first published a drawing of his when he was 15 years old.[1] The company hired him where Sábat became an editor at the daily, as well as contributing work as a staff correspondent, photographer and illustrator.
He kept working after Argentina's return to democracy, in 1983. He was a known critic of President Raúl Alfonsín where he would illustrate him as a clumsy ballerina falling over the nation's economy.[2] He also criticized President Carlos Menem and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner comparing her to a mafia figure with tape over her mouth with a black eye.[3]
Sábat died on 2 October 2018, during his sleep from a heart attack, in Buenos Aires, aged 85.[4]
Hermenegildo Sábat Media
- Buenos Aires-Combinación Subte Lima y Avenida de Mayo.jpg
Portrait of the late bandoneonist Ástor Piazzolla, by Hermenegildo Sábat
References
- ↑ Premio Nuevo Periodismo: Biografía básica de Hermenegildo Sábat[dead link](in Spanish)[dead link]
- ↑ Página/12: Sábat, maestro intachable (in Spanish)
- ↑ Hector D'Amico (October 2, 2018). "La mirada que desnuda al poder" [The sight that nakes power] (in español). La Nación. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
- ↑ "Compartí la información confiable y la opinión de los especialistas más prestigiosos con este link: Murió Hermenegildo Sábat, uno de los dibujantes más reconocidos en la historia argentina" [Hermenegildo Sabat, one of the highest regarded comic book artists in Argentine history, has died] (in español). La Nación. October 2, 2018. Archived from the original on October 22, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2018.