Hugo C. Yonzon, Jr.
Media
Part of The Philippine Magazine
- Title
- Hugo C. Yonzon, Jr.
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1969
- Subject
- Yonzon, Hugo C., Jr
- Cartoonists
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- CARTOONS S CHARACTERS HUGO C. YONZON, JR. What are the best works of Hugo C. Yonzon, Jr.? Art lovers would point to Yonzon paintings in their collections. Others would pick Ycnzon’s mural on “Philippine Life” which grac ed the Philippine Pavilion in the 1964 New York World’s Fair. The Art Association of the Philippines would release an impressive list of awards won by Yonzon in painting, caricature, pho tography, and advertising layout and design. Yonzon ed to them by cos. McGraw Hill in New York would show some of its technical manuals and reference books contain ing illustrations done by Hugo C. Yonzon, Jr. of the Philippines. State visitors to the Philippines would exhibit their portraits by Yonzon which were presentPresident Ferdinand E. MarThe Daily Mirror and the Manila Times would unfold a combined 13-year file of the daily comic strip “Sakay and Moy” while the Saturday Mirror Magazine would present its spot cartoon series “Little Toto” by Yon zon. Named after one of his thirteen chil dren, “Little Toto” (shown in half a dozen Samples on this page) has faded away. The best of Yonzon? Ask Yonzon the same question and he says: *Tm still work ing hard with pen and brush. And I still shoot a few pictures. It’s hard to say. Really hard!” Yonzon started drawing on old notebooks of his father. That was before he entered grade school. A winner of the Ramon Ro ces Scholarship award, he studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. He landed his first job as staff artist ofi the Evening News in 1947. Philprom hire* him assistant art director. Adcraft made him art director. Later, he moved to Philip pine Advertising Counsellors and Hontiveros, also as art director. After 20 years, he re turned to the Evening News but this time as its art director. He is also a consultant on cartoons at Graphic. On the side, he has done illustrations for Asia Magazine. McGraw Hill continues to give him assign ments. For the moment, Yonzon finds joy in di versity. He has not yet decided which me dium will best express his temperament. But once Yonzon finds that medium, he will ma ture as an artist. PM Editor’s Note: Cartoons and Characters starts as a series with this issue of PM. 10 PHILIPPINE MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 28, 1969