Joaquín Cera (born 1967 in

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) is a Spanish comic book writer more famous for his '' Pafman'' strip. He studied in the comic school Escola Joso and he began his career in the world of humor when he signed by

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, where he started to draw cartoons in the ''Mortadelo'' magazine, that soon disappeared, along with the editorial. With the creation in 1986 of

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, that inherited the rights of Bruguera publications, Cera went on the payroll, beginning the most prolific period of his career as a cartoonist. Sometimes alone, with characters like ''Pafman'' (created in 1987, about a bumbling superhero with an anthropomorphous cat sidekick) or '' Dr. Pacostein'' (created in 1991 about the misadventures of a

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in love with a nurse of his job), sometimes making tandem with Juan Carlos Ramis with characters such as '' Los Xunguis'' (a group of thug extraterrestrials) or some pages featuring the characters of Escobar ''

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'', Cera was one of the authors with more collaborations in the Ediciones B magazines of the 1990s, with strips in the magazines '' TBO'', ''Súper Mortadelo'' and ''Súper Zipi y Zape''. In fact, the Ramis-Cera duet aptly complemented works of distinguished authors such as Ibáñez, Escobar (Cera helped him with the ink in his last pages),

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or Raf. In 1996, the publisher of Ediciones B decided to close all comic magazines and the authors, except for Ibánez and Jan, were dispatched. Cera then started to work as a screenwriter for child television programs such as ''Con mucha marcha'' and cartoon series of Neptuno Films such as ''

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'' o ''Bandolero''. Still, the artist returned to work for Ediciones B with his partner and friend Ramis in the project to resurrect the comic characters of the twin brothers ''

'', but it only lasted 8 albums. Other characters of the duo had better luck such as ''Los Xunguis'' of which are published albums since 1992, and on an annual basis since 2000 specially puzzle books. In 2004, Ediciones B decided to publish new adventures of his most successful character, the idiot superhero ''Pafman'' in the ''Top Cómic'' collection. The first issue was ''Pafman redevuelve'' and the series continued with a new album per year until 2013.Pafman’: el inolvidable relleno de las revistas de Mortadelo en los 80
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