Arístides Esteban Hernández Guerrero

Ares is a psychiatric physician, cartoonist, illustrator and self-taught painter who works as an independent artist, author of numerous books and publications in the press.

He studied medicine at the University of La Habana, graduating in 1987. In 1993 he completed his studies in the specialty of psychiatry.

He publishes his first cartoon in 1984, in the magazine Opina. From that date on his works have appeared in the main Cuban publications and numerous publications throughout the world.

Ares has participated in a large number of humor events in which he has obtained more than one hundred awards, and is currently the Cuban cartoonist with the greatest number of international awards in this type of competition.

He has also illustrated more than fifty books and has collaborated with television and animation cinema, in the latter eight animated films based on his cartoons have been made (Filminutos).

He has taught courses and lectures on graphic humor in Cuba, Iran, Mexico, Colombia, Turkey, Canada, Finland, Venezuela and Spain and has been an organizer of several international cartoon events in Cuba and abroad. He has worked as an international jury member in humor exhibitions on multiple occasions in several places such as Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Cuba, Iran and Turkey.

In 1994 he was nominated by the specialized magazine Witty World to appear on the list of the best cartoonists in the world, he was nominated by Cuba for the Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Caricature, included in the Memory Project as one of the most relevant visual artists of the 20th Century in Cuba and included among the twenty most important cartoonists of the last century according to the survey The Twenty of the 20th Century.

He has taught courses and lectures on graphic humor in Cuba, Iran, Mexico, Colombia, Turkey, Canada, Finland, Venezuela, and Spain and has been an organizer of several international cartoon events in Cuba and abroad. He has illustrated more than thirty books.

He has collaborated with television and animation cinema in which eight animated films based on his cartoons have been made (Filminutos).

His cartoons are equally published in numerous media outlets throughout the world.

He has worked as an international jury member in humor exhibitions on multiple occasions in Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Cuba, Iran and Turkey.

Awards and Distinctions
Public Prize, Trento (Italy 1991)
First Prize Piauí Humor Exhibition (Brazil 1992)
Yomiuri Excellence Prize (Japan 1993)
First Prize Gabrovo Biennial (Bulgaria 1995)
Grand Eduardo Abela Prize, Biennial of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba, 1997, 2001, 2005)
First Prize Eurohumor (Italy 1998)
Six-time winner of the Prize for body of work at the National Humor Exhibition and winner of the Juan Gualberto Gómez Graphic Journalism Prize, Cuba.
First Prize Bienale Internazionale Eurohumor (Italy 2004)
Grand Prize World Caricature Exhibition Valle de Aburra (Colombia 2007)
First Prize Black cat cartoon contest (Azerbaijan 2008)
First Prize Ethiopia cartoons (Ethiopia 2009)
Grand Prix Kosova awards (Kosovo 2009)
Grand Prix World Press Cartoon (Portugal 2012)
First Prize Ranan Lurie United Nations Award (USA 2015)
In 2002 he was awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba the Distinction for National Culture.

Books
Entrar por el Aro (Cuba)
Cuba com Humor (Brazil)
Gente de Meio-Tom (Brazil)
Humor pelo Ares (Brazil)
Psicoterapia, una relación de ayuda (Guatemala)
Hooz (Iran)
Mi psicólogo soy yo (Cuba)
Alcohol, mito y realidad (Cuba)
El Norte, el Sur y la Globalización (Italy)
Ande el Sur (Cuba)
Homo sapiens (Cuba)
Ojos de Sur (Cuba)
Historia del humor gráfico en Cuba (Spain)
Caricatura cubana contemporánea I (Cuba)
Caricatura cubana contemporánea II (Cuba)
Caricatura cubana contemporánea III (Cuba)
Ares, dibujos premiados (Cuba)
Ares, Trazo consentido (Cuba)
Ares, 100 awarded cartoons (Greece)