Cartoonist and editor Andrés Cascioli, the former editor of Humor magazine, died today at the age of 72 after losing a long battle against cancer, his family reported.

Cascioli was born in the Buenos Aires provincial district of Avellaneda in 1936. He drew cartoons of most of the relevant politicians in Argentina over the past 30 years, and was the creator of Humor magazine, the cradle of many cartoonists including Roberto Fontanarrosa, Crist, Maitena and others.

Humor was first published in 1978, and became an icon of its time as a result of its constant critics to the heads of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

Cascioli also wrote books, including "30 years of political humour and other perversions" (30 años de humor político y otras perversiones", "Humor magazine and the dictatorship (La revista Humor y la dictadura) and "The dictionary of Argentine Rock".