Max (Spanish cartoonist)

He is an important figure in Spanish comics, creating such popular characters as Gustavo and Peter Pank early in his career, and more recently Bardín.

As a student he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts, with the goal of becoming a painter, but eventually felt more attracted by the narrative capacities of the comic strip, where his career ended up.

He used a character he had created previously, Gustavo (revolutionary, environmentalist, and anarchist) and in 1983 Peter Pank (parodying both the animation of Walt Disney and urban tribes).

In that year he published El carnaval de los ciervos (The carnival of the red deer), which was an important aesthetic and thematic change.

In these fields, Max's work is very broad, including covers for The New Yorker, creating the mascot for the centenary of football club Barcelona, and the execution of an animated short for the series Microfilm on the television channel Cinemanía.

In 2012 Capdevila gave a master class in the professional school for comics and illustration, O Garaxe Hermético, located in Pontevedra and founded by Kiko da Silva.

[3] In the 2013 edition of the Madrid art fair Arco, Max presented the comic book Paseo astral in the booth of the newspaper El Pais.

[4] In 2021, in collaboration with Companyia Itinerània, he created El laberinto del cuco, a comic story drawn on the walls of a large maze that you can walk through.