Jaume Capdevila
Jaume Capdevila
Main page
1242608

Jaume Capdevila

logo
Community Hub0 subscribers
What are your thoughts?
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Jaume Capdevila

Jaume Capdevila, known by the pseudonym Kap (born 1974), is a Spanish a cartoonist and caricaturist.

Capdevila was born in 1974 in Berga, Barcelona, Spain. He works for journals of Barcelona: La Vanguardia, El Mundo Deportivo, and others. He also draws for websites, such as El último mono Garabatolandia, and Kapdigital

He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. He published several books with his cartoons and political caricatures. In 2009 he was awarded the Gat Perich International Humor Prize.

He has exhibited his work in Barcelona, Bergen, Manresa, Figueres, Tarragona, Lleida, Zaragoza, Madrid, Valencia, Porto, Lisbon, Paris and Mexico City. 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. He was a biographer of Catalan cartoonists such as Bagaria and Tísner. He wrote about the state of Catalan satire in the Spanish media about comics Tebeosfera.

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, and about cartoonists such as Joaquim Muntañola ("L'art de riure, l'art de viure"), or "Tísner".

See all
User Avatar
No comments yet.