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Spanish Fever: - Page 169 1606999443 Santiago Garcia - 2016 Max was born in
Barcelona in 1956. An illustrator for the press, literature and philosophy books, and a prolific and celebrated cartoonist, Max has won the Premio Nacional del CĂłmic (2007, for BardĂn el Superrealista ),
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As a student he joined the
Faculty of Fine Arts, with the goal of becoming a painter, but eventually felt more attracted by the narrative capacities of the comic strip, where his career ended up. In these years he published in magazines such as
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This path of experimentation has increased in the recent years, when - free of external editorial impositions - he has had total creative freedom. Examples of this are the creation of the magazine
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on 17 September 1956. His early reading was dominated by publications of the
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In 2012 Capdevila gave a master class in the professional school for comics and illustration,
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In 1973 he joined the group El Rrollo (which included, among others,
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2005 saw the publication of an adaptation of chapter 26 of
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