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".
