Cristian Gustavo Dzwonik (born 18 March 1971 in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

), better known by his pseudonym Nik, is a

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from

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

, creator of Gaturro, and current cartoonist in the paper La Nación. He received the 2002 Konex Platinum Award for Best cartoonist, and four times the prize SIP (Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa). His works have been published throughout

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, the

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and

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. Nik has been accused multiple times of plagiarising works from other cartoonists/artists, and there is strong evidence of his plagiarism of the works of cartoonists Quino, Caloi, Fontanarrosa, and Claudio Kappel among others.

References

External links

Nik's website
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Gaturro at iGoogle

Gaturro's World
Argentine comic strip cartoonists Argentine comics artists Argentine people of Polish descent Living people 1971 births {{cartoonist-stub