HAVANA, Cuba, August 4 (ACN) Humberto Lazaro Miranda Ramirez (LAZ), cartoonist and assistant to Juventud Rebelde newspaper, has died 64, the newspaper reported today.
Born in Havana, Miranda Ramirez developed an extensive career in costumbrismo drawing, illustration, and political and personal caricatures. He participated in more than one hundred collective and solo exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, and won nearly one hundred national awards and approximately twenty international distinctions during his artistic career.
A graduate in Visual Arts and member of the Dedete Graphic Humor Group, he worked as a letterer, cartoonist, illustrator, and caricaturist, with an emphasis on costumbrismo humor and social and political satire.
From his youth, he was associated with the weekly Pionero, where he began his artistic training.
Throughout his career, LAZ worked for national media and participated in international events in Italy, Greece, Mexico, Colombia, and the United States.
In those countries, he taught workshops and discussions on caricature and graphic humor; his work reflected key aspects of Cuban daily life and cultural identity, recalled Juventud Rebelde, which expressed its condolences to the artist's family and friends.
Cuban important cartoonist Humberto Lazaro Miranda (LAZ) died at 64
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