Collection: joan cornellà

Joan Cornellà was born in Barcelona in 1981. Comics author and illustrator, he has collaborated regularly with the magazine El Jueves and numerous spanish periodicals before publishing Abulio in 2009, his first album with Glénat, winner of the Joseph Coll Prize. In 2012, Fracasar Mejor was published, a compilation of black and white strips which announced the following year the release of Mox Nox by Bang Ediciones. Master in the art of combining trash and acidic colors, it is with this collection of one page silent gags - with an often painful ending - that Joan Cornellà definitively finds his style.

Zonzo, and Sot self-published in 2015 and 2016, allow Joan Cornellà to free himself from the traditional bookstore network by distributing his work via Fail Better Press, an independent structure created in the wake of his sprawling invasion of social networks (more of 6 million fans). Published in 2019, Everyone Dies Alone brings together numerous new illustrations and paintings created for his exhibitions.

Suicide, infanticide, racism, disability, deformations and mutilations of all kinds; his absurd universe where the limits of political correctness are gleefully trampled on, proves brilliantly that we can laugh at everything, in order to point out the inequalities and violence of our times.

As a paradox regarding his internet fame, his most harsh criticisms are most often directed towards the narcissism of our digital life, where the quest for the ultimate selfie now seems to be the main goal of a large part of the population.

photo credit : joan cornella / d.r.