A los noventa y uno años se ha ido la Pepi, la doncella guerrera. Por suerte, pude disfrutar de una mujer fuerte, que quería ser animadora después de ver Blancanieves y los siete enanitos, a pesar de que en aquella época la animación no era cosa de mujeres. Me lo explicaba con una anécdota. Una tía suya, preocupada porque no era "como las otras niñas", presionó para que sus padres la llevaran a un médico muy caro de Barcelona, en la Casa Batlló. Allí, mientras miraba los cristales pintados, los doctor le dijo a sus padres que la niña estaba en perfectas condiciones, y que sencillamente no la presionaran. Por suerte, los padres de la Pepita promovieron sus ganas de dibujar y de animar, y con 14 años se presentaba a una prueba para animar Garbancito de la Mancha a las órdenes de Artur Moreno. Finalmente, por su inexperiencia, acabó pintando celuloide a las órdenes de Ana María Melero, pero pronto empezó a intercalar y acabó animando. Y no paró hasta la jubilación, con Despertaferro, de Jordi Amorós. En el II Fórum de animación de BAU, sobre mujeres y animación, publicamos parte de su diario. La Cruz de Sant Jordi y el Gaudí de honor le hicieron mucha ilusión, y yo la quiero recordar con esta entrevista que le hicimos con su discípulo, Jordi, que sabía buscarle las cosquillas como nadie. Se ha ido una animadora guerrera, pero no su ejemplo.
At the age of ninety-one Pepi, the warrior maiden, has left us. I'm lucky because I've been able to enjoy the personality of a strong woman that wanted to be animator after watching the Snowhite and the seven dwarfs, during a period when a woman hardly ever made a life of animation. She explained it to me with an anecdote. Her aunt, worried because she was not "like the other girls", pressured her parents to took her at a very expensive doctor, at the Casa Batlló. There, while she was looking at the painted glasses, the doctor said her parents that the girl was on good health, and that they simply had to let her go. Luckily, Pepita's parents promoted her aim for drawing and animating, so when she was 14 years old she got into the Garbancito of the Mancha production with Artur Moreno as the director. Because she had no experience in animation, she finally got in the ink and paint department, driven by Ana García Melero. Later on, she worked as an in-betweener and finally as an animator. And she didn't stop animating until her retirement, after animating Jordi Amoros' Despertaferro. We published parts of her diary in the Second Animation Forum in BAU, that was about woman and animation. The Creu de Sant Jordi prize and the Gaudi of Honour fulfilled her, and I want to remember her the interview I organized with her disciple, Jordi, that knew how to make fun of her with tenderness. An animator warrior has left us, but her example will remain.