Manuel Bartual | |
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| Manuel Bartual | |
| Born | 1979 (age 45–46) |
Manuel Bartual is a Spanish cartoonist and graphic designer born in Valencia in 1979.
As a cartoonist he made the strips Morón el Pollastre, Álex and Con amigos como estos , alongside Manuel Castaño and published by 7 Monos.
As a designer he usually works for Grupo Editorial Santillana, El País, Ediciones Sinsentido, Dibbuks and, mainly, Astiberri Ediciones. He is responsible for the image of magazines such as TRAMA , Buen provecho, Noroeste and El Manglar . He has also collaborated with Lorenzo Gómez in the strip Reflexiones de un oficinista, serialized in the magazine TOS . From 2007 to 2014 he publishes the strip Sexorama in El Jueves . [1]
In 2011, following the success of his fanzine Caramba!, he founded the publishing house of the same name. [2]
In 2014 he wrote the script for the thriller Todos tus secretos . [3] From 2014 to 2017 he published the strip Bienvenidos al futuro in the digital magazine Orgullo y satisfacción. [4]
In August 2017 he published on Twitter a thriller serialized story with himself as main character, [5] about a mysterious man who follows him during his holidays. [6] The story quickly became popular [7] and he went from 16,000 to 408,000 followers. [8] A year later, in August 2018 he wrote another story along Modesto García titled #REDMONKEY gaining 87000 retweets.
In summer 2020 he created the science fiction podcast Biotopia, about a technology investigation centre where weird things happen. [9]