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Jaume Capdevila
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Jaume Capdevila, known by the pseudonym Kap (born 1974), is a Spanish a cartoonist and caricaturist.
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Capdevila was born in 1974 in Berga, Barcelona, Spain. He works for journals of Barcelona: La Vanguardia, El Mundo Deportivo, and 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, Bergen, Manresa, Figueres, Tarragona, Lleida, Zaragoza, Madrid, Valencia, Porto, Lisbon, Paris and Mexico City.[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".
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Work
Cartoon books
- 1997 Sense Kap ni peus
- 1999 Barça: 100 años de buen humor
- 2001 La Patumàquia
- 2003 El Milhomes (Colectivo)
- 2007 El Maragallato
- 2007 Tiro al blanco Colección Pelotazos, n.1
- 2007 Aquellos maravillosos años Colección Pelotazos, n.2
- 2007 La cuadratura del círculo virtuoso Colección Pelotazos, n.3
- 2007 Cosas del Barça Colección Pelotazos, n.4
- 2007 Comunica con humor (Collective)
- 2009 El Ave con humor (Collective)
- 2009 Manar! Manar!
- 2011 Bojos pel futbol
- 2012 Enfoteu-vos-en! Humor indignat (Collective)
Essay and theory books
- 2006 Trazos. Un siglo de ilustración y buen humor en Mundo Deportivo
- 2006 Muntañola. L'art de riure, l'art de viure
- 2006 Señor director... Col. Barcelona una ciudad de Vanguardia, n.17
- 2007 Bagaria. La guerra no fa riure
- 2009 L'humor gràfic de Tísner. Una aproximació a les caricatures d'Avel·lí Artís Gener.
- 2009 Canya al Borbó! Iconografia satírica de la monarquia espanyola.
- 2010 Los Borbones a parir. Iconografía satírica de la monarquía española.
- 2011 Andreu Damesón. Geni de la caricatura amb Lluís Solà i Dachs.
Illustrated books
- ¡Que sabrá usted de fútbol!
- Los 200 mejores chistes deportivos
- Urruti t'estimo!
- El cabàs de micacos
- Guia del Berguedà
- El tres i el set números meravellosos
- Llegendes dels capgrossos i els gegants d'Esplugues
- El Quixot dels ignorants
- Un tresor entre torres i altres narracions
- Restaurantes originales de Barcelona
- Amores In-Perfectos
- ¡Qué rabia da!
- La Bugadera
- Manual del bon patumaire
- Guia d'orientació per patumaires
- Historia de España para Dummies
- Cocina fácil para Dummies
- Dormir bien para Dummies
- Jubilación para Dummies
- Declaración de renta para Dummies
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References
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