EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 18 © 2017 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

37 Ernesto García 'El Chango' Cabral An artist of many different guises—cartoonist, caricaturist, Art Nouveau painter, calligrapher and movie poster illustrator—he was also a silent movie comedian, wrestler and expert tango dancer. This man did it all as Diego Cordoba recounts revealing how a flip of a coin changed his life forever. FACING PAGE: El Rey del Barrio (King of the Neighbourhood) , film poster for a 1949 movie starring Tin Tan (Germán Valdés), a popular Mexican comedian from the ’40s–’50s (the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema). In the film Tin Tan pretends to be a railroad worker but moonlights as a gangster boss. The money he makes with his gang, he gives to the poor in his neighborhood, making this one of the most popular Mexican comedies of all time. This is probably the best known movie poster done by Cabral, and his graphic style has often been imitated in Mexico and around the world. LEFT: Cabral in a studio photo taken in 1942. RIGHT: 'El Chango y El Sapo' ('The Ape and The Toad'), date unknown. Caricature and cartoon of Cabral (as the ape) and muralist Diego Rivera who was nicknamed “el sapo” (the toad). Here Cabral announces that he’s got a street with his name in Jalapa (the capital of the state of Veracruz) and the toad replies that he’s got: 'El Callejón del Sapo' (The Toad’s Alley), one of the alleys located in the center of Mexico City with a mysterious and dark legend behind it.