Jaume Capdevila Explained

Kap (Jaume Capdevila) was born in 1974 in Berga, Barcelona, Spain. He is a cartoonist and caricaturist in some journals of Barcelona: La Vanguardia and El Mundo Deportivo among others.[1] He also draws for websites, such as El último mono[2] Garabatolandia,[3] and Kapdigital[4]

He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona.[5] He published several books with his cartoons and political caricatures.[6] In 2009 he was awarded the Gat Perich International Humor Prize.[7]

He has exhibited his work in Barcelona, Berga, Manresa, Figueres, Tarragona, Lleida, Zaragoza, Madrid, Valencia, Porto, Lisboa, París and México.[8] His work is syndicated by Cagle Cartoons.

Capdevila is author and co-author of many works on the history of Spanish cartoon, caricature and many subjects related to graphical humor.[9] He was a biographer of Catalan cartoonists such as Bagaria[10] and Tísner. He wrote about the state of Catalan satire in the Spanish media about comics Tebeosfera.[11] [12]

He acted as curator of exhibits related to this theme including "Trazos", a view of one hundred of years of history through the cartoons of El Mundo Deportivo, the oldest sports journal in Spain,[13] and about cartoonists such as Joaquim Muntañola ("L'art de riure, l'art de viure"),[14] or "Tísner".

Work

Cartoon books

Essay and theory books

Illustrated books

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bib.uab.cat/comunica/hg/autors/kap.htm Humorisme Gràfic; Kap
  2. Web site: El último mono . 29 July 2008 . 6 September 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090906061229/http://www.lavanguardia.es/humor/elultimomono.html . dead .
  3. Web site: Garabatolandia . 29 July 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080623090248/http://blogs.mundodeportivo.es/kapdigital/ . 23 June 2008 . dead .
  4. http://kapdigital.blogspot.com Kapdigital
  5. VV.AA. (2007): Siempre en Vanguardia. Barcelona: La Vanguardia p.170
  6. Book: Cuadrado , Jesús . Atlas español de la cultura popular. De la historieta y su uso 1873–2000 . Sinsentido / Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez . 2001 . Madrid . 695 . 978-84-89384-23-1 .
  7. http://paper.avui.cat/article/cultura/154589/buenafuente/kap/premis/gat/perich.html Buenafuente i Kap, premis Gat Perich
  8. http://www.periodistasenlinea.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3891 Notimex
  9. VVAA. (2006): Dibuixants, humoristes i il·lustradors de La Vanguardia 1881–2006. Barcelona: La Vanguardia / Fundació Caixa Girona p.200
  10. http://www.lavanguardia.es/premium/publica/publica?COMPID=53409051904&ID_PAGINA=22088&ID_FORMATO=9&turbourl=false Mundo Deportivo; La Vanguardia, 05/11/2007
  11. http://www.tebeosfera.com/Documento/Articulo/Humor/Catalunya.htm Humor Grafico en Cataluña: Hoy
  12. http://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/jaume_capdevila.html Jaume Capdevila entry
  13. http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-11-01-2006/abc/Catalunya/el-centenario-de-mundo-deportivo-conmemorado-con-una-gran-muestra_1313609167526.html ABC; El Centenario de Mundo Deportivo conmemorado con una gran muestra
  14. http://www.elmundodeportivo.es/web/gen/20080410/noticia_53452928676.html Mundo Deportivo; Homenaje al dibujante Muntañola

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