My favorite artist
He was the son of the bilingual secretary Elsa Bolaños Cacho and of the painter, draftsman and illustrator Francisco Gómez Linares.6 He studied mechanical engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, but never graduated.7 His father, a renowned painter of the time, passed away when he was six years old. His mother, who never got to know the fame of the series El Chavo del 8, died of pancreatic cancer.8 He began his career as an advertising creative, which connected him with radio and television, in which he was, during the 1950s, a very active screenwriter. He also wrote several film scripts for the Viruta and Capulina duo and briefly began as an actor with them in Two spoiled servants in 1960. However, he continued to spend most of his time writing, contributing dialogue for film scripts and Mexican television programs. His professional name, Chespirito, is due to the film director Agustín P. Delgado, derived from the diminutive of the...
