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Montanola aka Miguel Angel Gomez Cruz (1906-1994) was a painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He enjoyed a lengthy career as a cartoonist and artist in Ecuador and created several well known Ecuadorian cartoon characters & also created political cartoons that included political messages in his comic strips. He worked for thirty six years as a cartoonist for El Universo, a Guayaquil newspaper, the most prominent newspaper in Ecuador. He was born on 29 December 1906 in Guayaquil, Ecuador & emigrated to the US in the late 1970's. He retired to Burbank, California, where he died on 9 January 1994. He reportedly painted hundreds of oil paintings while living in California.
