- Source: Jaume Capdevila
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. 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, Berga, Manresa, Figueres, Tarragona, Lleida, Zaragoza, Madrid, Valencia, Porto, Lisboa, París and México. 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".
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
See also
¡Cu-Cut!