Jorge Oliver Medina

Journalist, writer, animation film director, cartoonist and illustrator of children's literature. Bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of La Habana.

He is a cartoonist, makes animated drawings and hosts a film program called Cuadro a Cuadro. Some of his compatriots usually call him the "crazy old man who shows the movies" and to top it off, he is the father of a green cat that has become the protagonist of books, theatrical works and even short films. He has done commercial advertising and public service announcements.

He began his professional activity in 1970 as a scriptwriter and cartoonist for the humorous weekly Palante.

In 1964, he published his first comic strip pages in the magazine Verde Olivo and until the early 1980s he collaborated with cartoons, reports and comic strips in Armed Forces publications.

Founder and director of the children's magazine Zun Zún, he was also deputy editorial director of the newspaper Juventud Rebelde and director of the cultural monthly El Caimán Barbudo.

In the late 1980s he took on the position of deputy director of channel 6 of the national TV and later worked in the CIMEX corporation, whose advertising agency he founded.

Currently he worked as director and scriptwriter at the ICAIC Animation Studios. There he has made short films aimed at children's audiences, promotional spots, documentaries and the series Adventures in the Kingdom of Ortografía (2015). He has published more than 15 books dedicated to his character Captain Plín, his friends the islanders and his enemies the pirates of Rui La Pestex.

He has published more than twenty-five children's books, among which stand out the comic strips of his characters from Isla del Coco, Captain Plin and the pirate Rui la Pestex, which gave rise to a series of animated cartoons.

Director and host of the television program Cuadro a Cuadro. Member of the presidency of the Cuban association of social communicators and directs the humor and comic strips department of the José Martí International Institute of Journalism. He holds the National Prize for Children's Literature "La Rosa Blanca," from the years 2006 and 2007, among other recognitions. In 2009 the ICAIC Animation Studios began producing the animated series with the adventures on Isla del Coco, which compile the best stories of Plin and Rui.

Taking advantage of his passion for drawing, he has also put his pen to the service of illustration. Thus, his little characters appear from multiple volumes, most of them from Editora Abril. Jorge assures that the books of Chamaquili and Mapá, with verses by Cuban ten-verse poet Alexis Díaz Pimienta, were a very special experience. He has never stopped working for children. He has been publishing in the magazine Zunzún for 25 years without missing an issue.