Mexican children's comic 'Chabelo' dies at 88

Xavier López, a Mexican children’s comic better known by his stage name “Chabelo,” has died at 88, President Andrés Obrador wrote on Saturday. López's best-known work, the Sunday variety show “En Familia con Chabelo”, ran for an astonishing 48 years from 1967 to 2015, Mexico's longest-running TV show.

The Mexican president wrote on his Twitter account that his own eldest son, José Ramón, “woke up early to see him (on television) more than 40 years ago.” On Saturday, his son Xavier Lopez Miranda addressed the media at the funeral home where his father was being mourned.