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Max

(Barcelona, Spain, 1956)

Author of comic strips and illustrator.

Storywriter and illustrator. He has written and illustrated almost twenty comics, including Comecocometrón (1994), Bardín baila con la más fea (2000) i La biblioteca de Turpín (2006). His most recent publication was, Bardín el Superrealista, which won the Premio Nacional de Cómic 2007, as well as prizes for  the Best Work, Best Illustration and Best Story at Barcelona's Saló del Còmic 2007. He was also a co-founder and co-editor of the avant-garde graphic magazine NSLM between 1995 and 2007.

As an illustrator he has created posters, the covers for books and CDs, illustrations for the press and for children's books. During his career he has won numerous prizes, like the Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or (1996), the Premi Nacional d'Il·lustració Infantil i Juvenil (1997), the Premi Ignatz (1999) and the Gran Premi del Saló del Còmic de Barcelona (2000). In 2004, he was awarded the Premi Junceda for the book Espiasueños (2003), a collection of his work as an illustrator over the last thirty years.

He currently illustrates the literary supplements of the New York Times and El País. He lives is Sineu (Mallorca).

http://www.maxbardin.com

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