Fernando Javier Sendra (born 1949 in

Mar del Plata Mar del Plata is a city on the coast of the Argentine Sea, Atlantic Ocean, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the seat of General Pueyrredón Partido, General Pueyrredón district. Mar del Plata is the second largest city in Buenos Aires ...

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) is an

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. He is mostly known as the creator of the newspaper comic series '' Yo, Matías'' ("Me, Matías"). He is the author of over 20 books, including 10 of the ''Yo, Matías'' series. He has two sons and two daughters. He began his career as a cartoonist in 1973 working for '' Siete Días''. Since then, he drew cartoons for several Argentine magazines, such as ''Para Ti'', ''Jocker'' and ''La Semana'', as well as the newspapers Tiempo Argentino and

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. In 1990, his strip ''Prudencio'' began to appear in the back of Clarín, the most popular daily newspaper in Argentina. In 1993, the name of this strip is changed to ''Yo, Matías''. He has also made a strip named ''Clodomiro and Capitan Chacho'' in the 1970s. He won the

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in 1992 and 2002.

References

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Short biography of Sendra at todohistorietas.com.ar
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