Helio Flores. He was born in Xalapa, in 1938. He studied architecture at the Universidad Veracruzana and visual arts at The School of Visual Arts in New York. He was founder and co-director of the magazine La Garrapata in its three periods. Some of his works are part of the permanent exhibition of the International Museum of Graphic Humor in Basel, Switzerland. In 1971 and 1988 he won the Grand Prix of the International Cartoon Show in Montreal, Canada. He has also been awarded in Turkey (1977), Bulgaria (1977), Greece (1977), Canada (1980), Cuba (1983), and Yugoslavia (1984); He was a member of the jury in international cartoon competitions in Nicaragua (1984), in Cuba (1985) and in Turkey (1988). He has been recognized with the National Journalism Award five times (1986, 1996, 2001, 2003 and 2011). In 2007 he received the La Catrina award from the International Meeting of Cartoons and Cartoons at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In 2008 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad Veracruzana and in 2017 he was awarded the Gabriel Vargas Prize for Cartoons and Caricatures by the Estanquillo Museum in Mexico City.