 Juan Kalvellido
WITH K AS IN KALVELLIDO
(Diary of a Proletarian Cartoonist)
RUDIKULUM VITAE
Juan Kalvellido, generously offers his artistic gifts to Axis of Logic
and to the world revolution. He is a cartoonist born from the working class (he
specifies that he sunk in the working class) that has never stopped believing
in revolution. This Andalusian was born in Cadiz, Spain in 1968 during the
student revolts. He lives in Malaga, where he earns his bread and butter
working in the hotel and catering business, a euphemism to say that during
eight hours (or even more!) of every day, of every month, of every year... he
serves giant hamburgers (whoppers, but over there they call them güpers) while
imagining thousands of drawings, and then later... when he goes home, dedicates
the rest of the day to making us and his family happy.
He has published many fanzines: Por amor al arte (7 issues lasting 5 years,
until 1998), Kabezacapada (1995), Especial gr-aznar (1995), Vamos a reír
(1996), Vamos a reír 2 (1997), Los zulos del estado (1997), Las kosas que nunca
mueren (1998), Kolabora con la policía...¡golpéate a ti mismo! (1999), Entre la
España y la pared (2002), A chankete le olía el aliento (2003). He has drawn CD
covers for bands like 3 de Bastos (4 CD) and A Palo Seko (Pp Pinotxo). He
illustrates poetry books: Orion, by Pilar Quirosa (1989), Islas provisionales,
by Pilar Quirosa (1995), Desertor de tu voz, by Alberto Aguirre (1999), A pesar
de todo la cerveza no enmudece, by Julián Sánchez (2003), Figurando el paisaje,
by Julián Sánchez (2005); children tales like El Kangrejito Valiente, by Patxi
Irurzun (2004); novels like Atrapados en el tiempo, by Patxi Irurzun (Literary
creative Prix 2004). He publishes daily cartoons on www.insurgente.org and
www.rebelion.org . He collaborates on a monthly basis on the journal Diagonal,
on the magazine El viejo topo and on the humour magazine Karmadice.
Kalvellido is getting bald, is a loving father and, of course, let’s repeat it,
he believes in the world revolution - more than ever!
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