{"id":77581,"date":"2014-07-31T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/?p=77581"},"modified":"2014-09-08T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:11:41","slug":"la-umh-investira-como-doctor-honoris-causa-al-humorista-grafico-forges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/2014\/07\/31\/la-umh-investira-como-doctor-honoris-causa-al-humorista-grafico-forges\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez University of Elche to confer cartoonist Forges as Doctor Honoris Causa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Executive Board of the Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez University (UMH) of Elche has approved to confer cartoonist Antonio Fraguas de Pablo, better known as Forges, as Doctor Honoris Causa. The investiture is to take place on October 3, the opening day of the 2014\/2015 academic year. Jos\u00e9 Juan L\u00f3pez Esp\u00edn, a UMH faculty member and Director of the Office for Communication, Marketing and the Press of the university, is to sponsor the new Doctor Honoris Causa.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/files\/2014\/07\/31-07-14-forges.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77583 alignleft\" alt=\"31-07-14-forges\" src=\"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/files\/2014\/07\/31-07-14-forges-300x217.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/files\/2014\/07\/31-07-14-forges-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/files\/2014\/07\/31-07-14-forges-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/files\/2014\/07\/31-07-14-forges.jpg 1721w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This artist, son of a Galician father and Catalan mother, was born in Madrid in 1942. When he was 14, he began working as a film scanning technician at Spanish public television (TVE). He left the staff of TVE to engage professionally in graphic humor. In 1964, he published his first cartoon in the newspaper Pueblo. In 1982, he began publishing the editorial cartoon in Diario 16 and then in El Mundo. Since 1995, he has been in charge of the editorial cartoon of El Pa\u00eds, and he is currently also involved in the radio program <i>No es un d\u00eda Cualquiera<\/i> with Pepa Fern\u00e1ndez at Radio Nacional de Espa\u00f1a (RNE).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Forges is an honorary member of the Journalist Association of Catalonia, and in 2012 was appointed technical director of the Quevedo Humor Institute. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Libertad de Expresi\u00f3n of the Uni\u00f3n de Periodistas de Espa\u00f1a and the Creu de Sant Jordi, the highest Catalonian honor. In 2007, Forges was awarded the Medalla de Oro al M\u00e9rito en el Trabajo by the Council of Ministers and, in December 2013, he received the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Pedro Antonio de Alarc\u00f3n in recognition for his professional career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"left\">More information about the cartoonist is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forges.com\/\">http:\/\/www.forges.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Board of the Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez University (UMH) of Elche has approved to confer cartoonist Antonio Fraguas de Pablo, better known as Forges, as Doctor Honoris Causa. The investiture is to take place on October 3, the opening day of the 2014\/2015 academic year. Jos\u00e9 Juan L\u00f3pez Esp\u00edn, a UMH faculty member and Director [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2993,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2477,770,2791,69,2782,2783,43,2777,2145],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comunicacion.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}