He didn't write for ’ARA, but readers saw him a lot in this newspaper: followers of Miquel Ferreres' cartoons often found him drawn in the jokes, accompanied by his colleague Josep Pernau, observing human and social miseries with elegant perplexity. Pernau died in 2011 and now Josep Maria Cadena leaves the Catalan press orphaned of a benchmark, whether as an active journalist, as a promoter of media and institutions in the field, as an art critic, and as a tenacious scholar of the country's publications, especially if they were satirical. His monographs on Catalan cartoonists –Opisso, Junceda, Apa, Perich...– are essential canonical works for approaching these authors.