Jaume Capdevila

Kap (Jaume Capdevila) Berga, was born in 1974 in 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]

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, Spain's 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

References

  1. Humorisme Gràfic; Kap. Access date 2 February 2009
  2. El último mono
  3. Garabatolandia
  4. Kapdigital
  5. VV.AA. (2007): Siempre en Vanguardia. Barcelona: La Vanguardia p.170
  6. Cuadrado, Jesús (2001). Atlas español de la cultura popular. De la historieta y su uso 1873-2000. Madrid: Sinsentido / Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez. p. 695. ISBN 978-84-89384-23-1.
  7. Buenafuente i Kap, premis Gat Perich Avui, 2009
  8. Notimex. Access date 2 February 2009
  9. VVAA. (2006): Dibuixants, humoristes i il·lustradors de La Vanguardia 1881-2006. Barcelona: La Vanguardia / Fundació Caixa Girona p.200
  10. Mundo Deportivo; La Vanguardia, 05/11/2007. Access date 2 February 2009
  11. Humor Grafico en Cataluña: Hoy, in Tebeosfera
  12. Jaume Capdevila entry in Tebeosfera authors dictionary. Access date 2 February 2009
  13. ABC; El Centenario de Mundo Deportivo conmemorado con una gran muestra. Access date 2 February 2009
  14. Mundo Deportivo; Homenaje al dibujante Muntañola. Access date 2 February 2009
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