Albert Monteys i Homar (

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, 15 September 1971) is a

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comic writer and illustrator, mostly known for his work in the satirical weekly magazine ''

El Jueves (Spanish for "''Thursday''") is a Spanish weekly satirical magazine based in Barcelona. Throughout most of its life, ''El Juevess masthead has featured the tagline "" ("''the magazine that comes out on Wednesdays''"). Its mascot is a nameless ...

'' of which he was the director from 2006 until January 2011.

Early life

Albert Monteys started reading comics in

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bought by his parents such as '' Cavall Fort'' or ''Tretzevents'' until he discovered the ones of Bruguera, especially '' Mort and Phil'' and '' Superlópez''.Monteys, Albert in an interview with Pedro Toro (07/2006).
Entrevista a Albert Monteys
'', ''Un día de texas''/''Guía del Cómic''. He is also a fan of

Asterix ''Asterix'' or ''The Adventures of Asterix'' (french: Astérix or , "Asterix the Gaul") is a ''bande dessinée'' comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors who adventure around the world and fight the Roman Republic, wi ...

.Monteys, Albert in an interview with Santiago García (07/1997).
Interview with Albert Monteys
», ''U, el hijo de Urich #5'' (Camaleón Ediciones). For two or three years he read many

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and when he was twelve and fifteen, Franco-Belgian, he even bought '' Spirou'' in French. He also published in the school magazine. He studied one year at the comics specialized school Escola Joso, joining a fanzine in

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titled ''Què trames?''

Career

Early work (1990–1995)

While he was studying the first year of

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at the

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, he provided samples to the publisher Joc Internacional, specializing in

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and

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, things he were at that moment not very familiar about. He was accepted and on the number 17 of its magazine ''Líder'' his first

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, dated 1989, appeared. He also made illustrations for RPGs and, over time, Monteys became production manager of the publisher. Monteys befriended faculty fellows José Miguel Alvarez, Ismael Ferrer and Alex Fito, constituting with them the collective La Penya Productions, whose comic ''Mondo Lirondo'' (Camaleón, 1993–1997) won the prize for best fanzine in Comic Fair Barcelona 1994. Monteys graduated in 1994 and went on to illustrate RPGs as well as publishing in the Catalan children's magazine ''Tretzevents''.Cuadrado (2000), pp. 867-868.

1996–2014

In 1996 Monteys published for the magazine ''Puta mili'' of Ediciones El Jueves. For the Barcelona International Comics Convention he published the comic ''Calavera lunar'', winning an award for best new author. He also started the strip ''Paco's Bar'' for ''

'' with little success so he was suggested to make another strip starring a selfish

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man titled ''Tato, con moto y sin contrato'', that ran from December 1996 to June 2014. In 1997 his work rate became even more strenuous when he became director of the journals ''Puta Mili'' and ''

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'', and coordinator of ''Zona X''. In 1998, he joined the editorial board of ''El Jueves'', alongside

Manel Fontdevila Manel Fontdevila i Subirana, who signs as Manel, is a Catalan cartoonist (Manresa, 1965), who was a regular contributor to the satirical magazine ''El Jueves'', where he published the series '' Para ti, que eres joven'', alongside Albert Monteys ...

, aiming to promote the arrival of new authors: Darío Adanti, José Luis Agreda, Lalo Kubala, Pedro Vera and Bernardo Vergara. In 1997 he began the strip, ''Para ti, que eres joven'', a two-page strip with jokes with youth themes for the magazine ''El Jueves'' alongside

as well as jokes of current events. From 2004 to 2006 he published the strip ''Carlitos Fax'' for the children's magazine ''

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'', about a silly and self-centered robot in a crazy futuristic world.Alcázar, F. J. (2005)
«Caso clínico: ''Revista Mister K''»
''

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''. In January 2006, he was appointed director of ''El Jueves'', facing from this position the following year the conviction of its magazine for the crime of insulting the Crown due to a cartoon in the front page of Manel Fontdevila and Guillermo Torres which included an explicit scene of Prince Felipe and

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having sex. In 2011, he stepped down as director of the weekly magazine.

Abandonment of El Jueves

In June 2014, Monteys announced his departure from the magazine ''El Jueves'' after the editorial RBA not allowed to publish a cover with a joke which referenced the abdication of the king of Spain,

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. Other cartoonists also left the magazine. Those comic artist published on 18 June, the day before the coronation of

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, an online comic with jokes about the event titled ''Orgullo y satisfacción''. He was later hired by the monthly satirical magazine ''Mongolia''.

Universe!

In November 2014, '' Universe!'' #1, which was created, written and drawn by Monteys, was published on

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. It is a

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anthology series. As of December 2018, six issues have been published. The series was nominated in for a 2017

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for Best Digital Comic.Hennon, Blake (July 22, 2017)
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Bibliography

References

External links

Monnteys in Lambiek comiclopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Monteys, Albert 1971 births Living people Spanish comics artists Spanish comics writers Artists from Barcelona