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Vizcarra
drawing for one of the Valencia Fallas, 2006
Some
'El Jueves' covers, by Vizcarra
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Joan
Vizcarra Carreras (Montblanc, 1967)
He has
a Degree of Arts by the Barcelona University, and he is teacher
of the Alcalá de Henares University, since 1997.
His first
works in the field of illustration were in advertising agencies.
He worked
for two years for the Delta Group, a company specialitated
in advertising spots for TV and in producing cartoons.
In 1991,
he began to publish his caricatures in the spanish humor magazine
El
Jueves, where he is still working today.
During
the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, he began his collaboration
with the catalan newspaper Avui.
Today, he still publishes one caricature in that newspaper
every week, in the Sunday Magazine.
Amongst
other publications, he has collaborated, too, with the magazines
'Telele', 'Penthouse' and 'Ciencia y Vida', and has created
some illustrations for the spanish newspaper (based in Madrid)
El
Mundo del Siglo XXI. In september 1995, he began
a weekly collaboration with the sports section of El
Periódico de Cataluña, one of the
more important spanish newspapers.
Vizcarra's
caricatures have been usted in a lot of posters, calendaries
and record covers. He even has created the caricatures for
one of the 'fallas' of Valencia that were presented in 2005.
His works has been presented in several arts expositions,
including:
- Caricatures
exposition in the Comic Convention of Cornellà, 2005.
- Anthologic
exposition, opening the XIX edition of the Comic Contest
“Noble Villa de Portugalete” (2005).
- Collective
Exposition, organizated as part of the 'El Jueves' 25th
anniversary (2002).
- Exposition
in 'Humoralia 2001' (Lleida).
- Exposition
in the Caricature Meeting 1998 (Ourense)
Publications:
El Jueves, El Periódico de Catalunya, Telele, Penthouse,
Ciencia y Vida, la revista del Carnet Jove, Epicur, Enderroc,
Esports de neu, revista Barça, Avui
Books
published :
- 1994:
Vizcarra. Caricaturas
(Col Titanic, núm. 7 – Ediciones El Jueves).
- 1999:
Esto es Hollywood (Book
that was gived as a gift with the magazine El Jueves núm.
1136).
- 2005:
Lo más mejor de Vizcarra
(Col. Lo más mejor, núm. 14 – Ediciones
El Jueves).
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