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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".
- ^ Humorisme Gràfic; Kap. Access date 2 February 2009
- ^ "El último mono". Archived from the original on 6 September 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2008.
- ^ "Garabatolandia". Archived from the original on 23 June 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2008.
- ^ Kapdigital
- ^ VV.AA. (2007): Siempre en Vanguardia. Barcelona: La Vanguardia p.170
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
- ^ Buenafuente i Kap, premis Gat Perich Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Avui, 2009
- ^ Notimex. Access date 2 February 2009
- ^ VVAA. (2006): Dibuixants, humoristes i il·lustradors de La Vanguardia 1881–2006. Barcelona: La Vanguardia / Fundació Caixa Girona p.200
- ^ Mundo Deportivo; La Vanguardia, 05/11/2007 Archived 28 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Access date 2 February 2009
- ^ Humor Grafico en Cataluña: Hoy, in Tebeosfera
- ^ Jaume Capdevila entry in Tebeosfera authors dictionary. Access date 2 February 2009
- ^ ABC; El Centenario de Mundo Deportivo conmemorado con una gran muestra. Access date 2 February 2009
- ^ Mundo Deportivo; Homenaje al dibujante Muntañola. Access date 2 February 2009