Joan Cornellà
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Joan Cornellà Vázquez January 11, 1981 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
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| Awards | Josep Coll Prize |
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Joan Cornellà Vázquez (born 11 January 1981) is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, famous for his unsettling, surreally humorous and blackly humorous comic strips as well as artwork.
Biography
Joan Cornellà Vázquez was born in Barcelona, Catalonia on 11 January 1981. Having graduated in fine arts, he has collaborated for numerous publications, such as La cultura del Duodeno, El Periódico, Ara and has illustrated for The New York Times.[1]
In 2009 he won the third edition of the Josep Coll Prize with his album Abulio, published in the next year by Glénat.[2] Since 2010 he provides cartoons for the Spanish magazine El Jueves.
In 2012, Fracasa Major, a selection of Cornellà's black-and-white cartoons made from 2010 to 2012, was published. Most of the material was previously unpublished, although it also contains material published in El Jueves and various other fanzines.
In 2013, a third album of his, Mox Nox, was published via Bang Ediciones.[3]
Bibliography
- Abulio (Glénat, 2010)
- Fracasa Major (self-published via desktop publishing, 2012)
- Mox Nox (Bang Ediciones, 2013)
See also
- New French Extremity
- Nick Zedd
- Shock art
- Nick Dropkick
- Banksy
- Andres Serrano
- Neckface
References
- ↑ "On Legs, Seats and Subway Etiquette - NYTimes.com". Retrieved April 2015.
- ↑ Yexus (08/11/2010). Los nombres que saltan a escena, "El diario montañés". (Spanish)
- ↑ "Mox Nox | ". Retrieved April 2015.