Oscar González Loyo

http://composta.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/oscar-gonzalez-loyo-y-jorge.jpg Oscar González Loyo, born April 11, 1959 in Mexico City; is a comic book artist mostly known for his creation Karmatrón y Los Transformables and founder along with his father and wife, Susana Romero, of ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio in 1994.

He is the son of Oscar González Guerrero, legendary Mexican comic book master.

As a child he was influenced by the work of Mexican comic book artists that frequented his house like Héctor Macedo, as well as from Walt Disney, Osamu Tezuka, Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng and Robert McKimson.

At age 14 he became a professional artist for Las Aventuras de Capulina.

Over the years, he has worked in titles like Las Aventuras de Cepillín, Las Aventuras de Parchís, Katy la Oruga, El Monje Loco, The Flintstones, The New Speed Racer, Tiny Toons, Looney Tunes, The Simpsons Comics and Bart Simpson Comics.

From 1996-2000 he was the Animation Director for "Plaza Sesamo", the Latin American co-production of "Sesame Street", including cartoons including a “caballo” (horse) dresses as a “cebra” (zebra), the different kids of "jugetes" (toys), monsters have a "fiesta" (party), O for Oruga, kids flood into an "escuela" (school), in the "cielo" (sky), a bird is nearly hit by an airplane, a "bruja" loads assorted ingredients into her cauldron...for her bath, a snake slithers through the "desierto", a "pez" (fish) swims in various areas of the deep blue, only to reveal it's his fish bowl, a girl goes out to play in the "nieve" (snow), a critter rows down the "rio" (river), Ñ for nandu, K for Karate, an alien crashes on Earth and uses a telephone to get help and a cat cleans up some "basura" (trash).

In the year 2000, he became the first Mexican to win an Eisner Award at Comic-Con International for his work on Simpson's Comics.

In present years he continues to work in the Karmatron Comic Book, and is planning to launch a project called Saskunah el Maya, a story about his theory of Mayan history and mysterious disappearance. He is also in the works for taking this story to a movie.