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Jorge Grosso
Jorge Grosso is an Colombian born cartoonist of 37 years. He is the director of many different art initiatives and porejcts which aim to inspire owonder and creativity in anyone.

Early life
Jorge Grosso

Career
Cartoonist, toy, and game designer lecturer and professor; Grosso majored in Fine Arts, with specialization in Painting, at the National University of Colombia.

Creator of the comic strips: Attila, Querubin, Princess Creolina, Mugroso, Garlopin, San Victorino Station, La Buseta Review, Love Stories, Vice-President, Chino Risso, Mister I,  and Obama and Trumpy. Throughout his career, he has published work in Colombia for the newspaper El Tiempo (Grosso Modo), and magazines such as Cromos, Muy Interesante, and Mascotas. Currently he publishes work in newspapers across the United States.

Founder-director of Taller de Humor, Humor Workshop, an organization that promotes graphic humor in all of its manifestations. He has published several books: “The Vice: Nadita of Nothing”, “Everything is Possible”, and “The Audacity of the Smile, the Presidency of Barack Obama”. Additionally, he has directed and edited print publications such as: the Bus, San Victorino Station, the Buseta Review, and Humoris. A passionate advocate for literacy, he has been the main promoter for the caricature pavilion of the FILBO Bogota International Book Fair.

He has created political and civic action campaigns: What Did You Say the Other Day…?, Zero Pregnant Chicks, No To Arms, the Solution is Everything, and the 7 Capital Principles.

For the television newscast cinevision and the humor show Zoociedad, he created and directed popular computer animated shorts “There is No Small Enemy”.

In academia, he has been a professor at the National University of Colombia and the University of the Andes. The Alcalá de Henares University in Madrid (Spain) named him an honorary professor of humor. Furthermore, he co-directed the project “U with humoris causa”, which brought lectures, meetings, and exhibitions and cartoonists to universities in bogota.

He has participated in the national and international exhibitions where he has won several awards (Brazil, Canada, Japan, Colombia, Belgium, and the United States).

He has performed a world record of cartoons in Bogota, Mexico City, and Tampa.

Currently, he is developing several projects: Grossotoons, a multimedia humor and animation series, AEIOU the International University of Animation Arts and Crafts, as well as Humoris a page if cartoons and graphic humor that is published in newspapers in the United States.

Most prominently, he is also working on directing and producing his first animated feature film.

His toy company ToyBoyaco creates all kinds of toys in wood. In English this means “Toy, Boy and Company” but in colloquial Spanish it means “I am from Boyaca”, a Colombian regions where the Grosso Gamez family originated.