The outstanding and renowned painter, advertising and animation cartoonist, cartoonist and cartoonist Cecilio Avilés Montalvo, died this Sunday in Havana, according to several friends and family members published on Facebook.
Member of the Union of Journalists of Cuba and of the UNEAC, he received the National Award for Community Culture in 2010. He was one of the most popular drawing and cartoon artists among Cuban readers of all ages and creator of the much-liked characters “Cecilín” and “Coti”, among many other caricatures.
The journalist José Dos Santos, former first vice president of Upec, said on Facebook about Cecilio:
“Excellent plastic artist and graphic journalism, as well as an affable person, full of ideas that we shared on many occasions during my time at UPEC. On more than one occasion I suggested that he group his participations on Wednesdays in Good Morning, of a great didactic nature, to collect them in a volume of initiation to caricature. I hope he has done it or that someone does it for his value as training for future followers of that complex although apparently simple art, of which he was a teacher”.
The presidency of the Union of Journalists of Cuba conveys its most sincere condolences to family and friends of Cecilio Avilés.
