Aristides Esteban Hernandez Guerrero (ARES)

Havana city, september 2, 1963

Ares has study medicine (graduated at 1987) and psichiatry (graduated at 1993)

He has published his first cartoon in 1994, he also working as illustrator (mainly

Child books) and made oil paintings and animations.he works in havana as a free

Lance artist.

His works has been published around the world. He has won more than one hundred awards

Fifty of them of international level, some of them are:

.first prize, piaui international cartoon contest, brazil

.first prize cartoon, gabrovo biennal , bulgaria

.first prize, eurohumor, italy

.excellenze prize, yomiuri shimbum international cartoon contest, japan

.grand prix san antonio bienal, cuba (two times)

.eduardo abela grand prix, national cartoon contest, cuba (five times)

Ares has published seven books:

.entrar por el aro, cuba

.cuba com humor, brazil

.gente de meio tom, brazil

.humor pelo ares, brazil

.psicoterapi, una relacion de ayuda, guatemala

.hooz, iran

.mi psicologo soy yo, cuba

He has illustrated another eleven books

Ares has working with tv and animated films, some of his works has been used to

 make short animation films (filminutos). He has gave lectures about cartoon and comic

Art in cuba, iran, mexico, colombia ,turkey, canada and finland

He serve as a jury in a number of international cartoon contest in mexico, italy, brazil

,cuba, iran...

 In 1994 he was nominated by the witty world magazine (usa) to be included in the list

Of the best cartoonists of the world, he was nominated by cuba to the quevedos

Iberoamerican cartoon award, was included in the memory project book as one of the

 most relevants visual artists of cuba in the xx century and included in the survey

The twenty most outstanding cartoonists of the twenty century in cuba.

In 2002 he has received by the cuban culture minister the national culture medal

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