Manel Fontdevila
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| Born | 1965 (age 52) |
Manel Fontdevila i Subirana, who signs as Manel, is a Spanish cartoonist (Manresa, 1965), who was a regular contributor to the satirical magazine El Jueves, where he published the series Para ti, que eres joven, alongside Albert Monteys and La Parejita S.A. (the comical daily misadventures of a romantic couple), and also he does less commercial albums for Glénat.
Manel began his career when he was 15, working with environmental organizations and neighborhood groups. and in 1982, at the local newspaper "Regió 7".
In 1990, while studying Fine Arts in Barcelona, he published in the magazines El Víbora, Makoki, Cairo, Totem and Viñetas.
In 1993, he began publishing in the journal Puta Mili his series Emilio/a. For Camaleón Ediciones he publishes five strips of the fanzine Mr. Brain presenta (1993–1997), with Pep Brocal and Padu the script of "¡Hola, terrícola" (1994) for Pep Brocal and the surreal "Testimonio" (1996), scripted by Marcel.
In 1995 he started the strip La Parejita S.A., for the magazine El Jueves, about the daily comic misadventures of a couple that received that same year he the Còmic Salo Barcelona Award for Best Screenplay. With that job security, he himself begins to live with his couple.
In 1997 he began the strip, Para ti, que eres joven, a two-page strip with jokes with youth tematics for the magazine El Jueves alongside Albert Monteys. Between 2000 and 2004 he was editor of the magazine El Jueves. Also, he published a collection of short stories titled Mantecatos (2003) for Glénat that was awarded best comic of Saló de Barcelona of 2004 and Rosenda y otros momentos pop (2005), which was a commercial failure.
In 2007, he published his album Super Puta (Glénat), a personal project that he had being developed over the previous two years applying automatic writing to comics and he leaves his collaboration in Regió 7 to start a daily joke cartoon section in the newspaper Público and collaborated with El Manglar. Manel kept his section in Público until the end of its print edition in 2012.
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