 In 1932 he moved to Santiago to work as a cartoonist at the satirical magazine "Topaze".Adopting the pseudonym "Pepo" (from "pepón", "little barrel", his childhood nickname), he created the comic strip "Don Gabito" for the magazine, a strip featuring a caricatured Chilean president Gabriel González Videla.He also caricatured president Pedro Aguirre Cerda as "Don Pedrito".