Manuel Tovar Siles

Manuel Tovar Siles (10 August 1875 – 10 April 1935) was a Spanish cartoonist and caricaturist. In addition to "Tovar", he also signed with the pseudonym "Don Hermógenes". Manuel Tovar was self-taught and was influenced by the artist . Despite some early collaborations for magazines in Valencia and Barcelona, he soon moved to Madrid. Tovar drew caricature portraits, political satire, and costumbrismo. He also worked in oil and watercolor painting, though he was less well known in those techniques. His illustrations were published in periodicals like Madrid Cómico, Gedeón, La Correspondencia de España, El Liberal, ABC, El Sol, La Voz, La Esfera, Blanco y Negro, Nuevo Mundo, Mundo Gráfico, Buen Humor, El Imparcial, La Hoja de Parra, Gutiérrez, La Risa, ¡Oiga usted...!, Heraldo de Madrid, España Nueva, La Bandera Federal and Don Quijote.

Personal life He married Concepción Rodríguez and had two children, Manuel and Conchita. Tovar is buried in the cemetery of La Almudena.

Legacy Tovar was described by Mariano Sánchez de Palacios as "one of the most representative figures of the journalistic Madrid of the first quarter-century". The newspaper La Libertad tagged him as "the most popular cartoonist in Madrid".