Rocío Vidal Explained

Birth Date:	6 March 1989
Birth Place:	Barcelona, Spain
Nationality:	Spanish
Area:	Cartoonist, illustrator
Notable Works:	Machistadas

Rocío Vidal Chica^[1] (born 6 March 1989)^[2] is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, organizer of the KBOOM! independent comic conference and former collaborator of the satirical magazine El Jueves. She is known for her graphic novel Machistadas.

Career

Rocío Vidal has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. From a very early age she began to be interested in comics and at the age of 14 she began publishing fanzines and self-published works.^[3]

As the years went by, Vidal delved more professionally into the comics industry, delving into it in various ways: working as an author, being part of the editorial board of the independent comic anthology Sextories and serving as a regular contributor to the magazine satirical El Jueves,^[4] a position she held until her dismissal in 2023.^[5]

In February 2019, Vidal launched her work Machistadas, together with the Plan B publishing house, a graphic novel that vindicates the situations of machismo and micromachismo that men and women face in today's society.^[6]

Works

• El cuaderno de Tesla (with Evandro Rubert, 2009 to 2011)
• Doctor Wargh! (Antología, 2012)
• Sextories Fanzine #1-3 (Anthology, 2012-?)
• Pandora's Box #13 (Anthology, 2013)
• Colección Vendimia #5 (2015)
• Con los Ojos de un Niño (Anthology, 2016)
• Promiscua (2017)
• El Jueves #2145 (Anthology, 2018)
• Sextories - Historias con chicha #1-3 (Anthology, 2018–2019)
• Machistadas (2019)
• El Jueves #2231 (Anthology, 2020)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rocío Vidal Chica . Tebeosfera . 2023-12-24.
2. Web site: Rocío Vidal . Penguin Libros . 2023-12-24.
3. Web site: Rocío Vidal: "Nuestro público son parejas y mamás con carritos de bebé" . El Periódico . 2023-12-24.
4. Web site: Rocío Vidal: "a las mujeres se nos ha educado para desconfiar de nosotras mismas" . Telemadrid . 2023-12-24.
5. Web site: Hoy he acabado un cómic muy especial para mi: un cómic hecho puramente por cariño, porque me sale del higo, por disfrutarlo… y que me ha ayudado a abrazarme un poquito. Qué bonitas son las casualidades… @miuriine, gracias por ser como eres ✨ . Twitter . 2023-12-24.
6. Web site: Rocío Vidal: "A las que dibujamos cañero nos confunden con hombres" . Diario de Mallorca . 2023-12-24.