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Miguel Gallardo |
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| Visit Miguel's own website | After studying art in Barcelona,
Miguel began his professional career designing comic books and contributing
illustrations to magazines and newspapers. He began drawing seriously
at a young age and somehow always knew that he wanted to be an illustrator. |
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From 1994, he has been a regular contributor to one of the two main Spanish daily newspapers, La Vanguardia, where he has two special features: illustrations to a political column in the Saturday edition and illustrations to a more humorous piece in the Sunday paper. |
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| Miguel's drawings are precise, with clean lines. His style comes from a long tradition of drawing and applied arts. He has extensive experience with newspaper graphics and printing, and sees himself as a newspaperman and as a cartoonist. He is so well known in Spain that the artist and critic, Javier Mariscal, said of him: If Miguel Gallardo did not exist, we would have to invent him. He describes his drawings as “a quiet conversation, like a dialogue while you are looking at cars from a window, or watching TV”. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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American illustrators such as Robert Crumb,
and Art Spiegelman from the New Yorker,
were some of his early inspirations. He also admires great Spanish painters,
some as famous as Picasso, others local artists like
Casas, well-known in Spain for his portraits. Opisso,
an illustrator from the 1930s and 1940s, who also inspires him. |
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Miguel's funky punchy young urban style is a product
of his environment, living in a dynamic city like Barcelona—a city of
art, great architecture and a melting pot of many cultures. |
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He also enjoys collaborating on children's books. His series features books that busy parents can read to their kids; most notable is a book called Stories to Tell in one Minute. |
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But the one project that is closest to his heart is developing a book of stories for the parents and siblings of children with disabilities. His own daughter, Maria, who has just turned nine years old, is autistic. Children and adults alike fear the unknown he says, and this is a project to try to explain in simple language what living with disabilities is like. |
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