Joan Vizcarra Carreras (born 1967 in Montblanc, Tarragona) is a Spanish cartoonist. He has several books published by the Spanish language satirical magazine El Jueves.
Although his first love was music -and more specifically the rock and roll of classic musicians like Elvis Presley- very soon he fell in love with painting. In 1985, he moved to Barcelona, where he studied arts in the University. While there, he discovered that he had an ability to draw caricatures.
Since 1991 he works for El Jueves, perhaps Spain's most important satiric magazine. He has contributed to other publications like El Periódico de Catalunya or the Catalan newspaper Avui. In 1995 you begin weekly collaborations for El Periódico de Catalunya. Later he also collaborates in the supplement of the newspaper El Mundo. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Humor by the University of Alcalá de Henares. [1]
El Jueves is a Spanish weekly satirical magazine based in Barcelona.
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Carmelo Filardi (1900–1989) was a Puerto Rican artist of Italian ancestry, was a cartoonists who had his work published in Puerto Rico's El Mundo newspaper starting in 1927. He was from Yauco, Puerto Rico and his parents were born in Italy. Filardi specialized in satire and journalistic criticism. To do this, he used depictions of average daily life in Puerto Rico to illustrate his thoughts. He was a caricaturist and his work is included in University of Puerto Rico collections.
Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Nieto is a Spanish hyperrealist painter who specialises in historical military paintings that portray different eras of the Spanish Armed Forces through hyperrealistic naturalism. On January 11, 2022, he presented the Ferrer-Dalmau Foundation with the aim of promoting defense culture through history and art.
Andreu Mayayo i Artal is a professor of Modern History and vice-dean of the Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Barcelona. He is the editor-in-chief of the Segle XX. Revista Catalana d'Història journal, member of the editorial boards of the Catalan journals L'Avenç, Sàpiens and El Contemporani. He is also a member of the Board of the Democratic Memorial of the Government of Catalonia and a regular contributor to media debates at RAC 1, Debat de La 1 of Televisión Española, RNE Ràdio 4, Catalunya Ràdio and Barcelona TV.
Manel Fontdevila i Subirana, who signs as Manel, is a Spanish cartoonist, 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., and also he does less commercial albums for Glénat.
Albert Monteys i Homar is a Spanish comic writer and illustrator, mostly known for his work in the satirical weekly magazine El Jueves of which he was the director from 2006 until January 2011.
Antonio Colinas Lobato is a Spanish writer and intellectual who was born in La Bañeza, León, Spain on January 30, 1946. He has published a variety of works, but is considered to be above all a poet. He won Spain's National Prize for Literature in 1982, among several other honors and awards.
Rosario de Velasco Belausteguigoitia was a Spanish figurative painter who was a member of the Sociedad de Artistas Ibéricos and close to the German New Objectivity.
Lorenzo Mediano is a Spanish physician, writer and wilderness survival instructor. He is the author of several novels such as Los olvidados de Filipinas, La escarcha sobre los hombros, El Secreto de la Diosa and Tras la huella del hombre rojo.
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Antoni Palau Dulcet , librarian and bibliographer, author of the monumental Manual del librero hispano americano, Conca de Barbera (1912),and numerous guides from "Montblanc, Poblet i la Conca" (1930-1932).
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Gustavo Morales y Delgado is a Spanish journalist, periodist and former politician. He is the former deputy director of the newspaper El Rotativo and former editor of the newspaper Ya. He has collaborated as a military analyst with BBC and Russia Today. He won the Carlos V Award for Journalism, two orders of Merit and Palma de Plata.
Javier Sáez del Álamo is a Spanish sociologist, translator, and gay rights activist, specialising in queer theory and psychoanalysis.
Carlos Taibo Arias is a writer, editor, and retired professor of political science at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
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Mario Martín Gijón is a Spanish writer, poet and literary critic.
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Grupo Zeta was a Spanish media conglomerate which owned several newspapers and magazines. Founded by Antonio Asensio in 1976, it launched the magazines Interviú and Tiempo before its most successful title, the daily newspaper El Periódico de Catalunya.