Though almost a stranger to the art world, El Roto is one of the best-known draftsmen in Spain. For more than forty years, he has contributed to a number of publications, among them El País, the country’s leading newspaper, for which he publishes illustrations on a daily basis. On the art scene—in which his participation is recent and sporadic—he signs his paintings with his real name: Andrés Rábago.

El Roto is not the only pseudonym Rábago has assumed. As early as the 1970s, he used the name OPS to sign drawings with a Surrealist iconography and spirit that delighted readers of the