Mauro Malang Santos (born on 20 January 1928 in Santa Cruz, Manila), commonly known simply as Malang, is a prominent and award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and fine arts painter from the Philippines.[1]
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Malang is the son of Dan Santos and Juliana Malang. He is the husband of Mary San Pedro, with whom he had four children, including Steve Santos and Soler Santos. Steve and Soler are painters as well.[1]
Malang started learning how to draw from Teodoro Buenaventura, a private tutor,[2] when he was ten years old. He studied at the Antonio Regidor Elementary School in 1934. He attended Arellano High School in 1941.[2] For one semester, Malang studied at the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines in 1946.[2] He stopped attending formal school at the age of 19 in order to work for the art department of the Manila Chronicle newspaper. At the Manila Chronicle, he apprenticed under Liborio "Gat" Gatbonton, a Filipino cartoonist. During 1972, Malang attended art classes at the Otis Art Institute[1] in Los Angeles, California under a three-month scholarship[2]
At the Manila Chronicle, Malang created Kosme, the Cop, Retired, the first daily comic strip in the English language for the evening edition of the newspaper. In 1955, Malang established the Bughouse, a gallery specializing in cartoons. Malang established the gallery together with cartoonist colleagues such as Liborio Gatbonton, Larry Alcala, Hugo Yonzon, and Elmer Agustan. In 1966, Malang launched the Art for the Masses, a project that brought printmaking of artworks to a larger number of artwork enthusiasts at affordable prices.[1]
In 1957, Philippine Art Gallery founder, Lyd Arguilla, included Malang in the Twelve Artists in the Philippines-Who's Who. In 1958, the Art Directors Guild of the Philippines conferred Malang the Award for Editorial Design. Malang won in competitions sponsored by the Society of Philippine Illustrators and Cartoonists. In 1964, the Society of Philippine Illustrators and Cartoonists named Malang as the Artist of the Year. Malang won awards in the annual art competitions held by the Art Association of the Philippines, namely for his Street Fight (second prize, 1951), Traffic (third prize, 1953), The Yellow Sky (honorable mention, 1959), Quarter Moon (second prize), and Gate to Intramuros (honorable mention, 1963). In 1963, Malang was included as the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines. In 1981, the City of Manila awarded him the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan (literally "Arts and Culture Guide") award.[1]
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