Manel Fontdevila

Manel Fontdevila i Subirana, who signs as Manel (born 1965 in Manresa), is a Spanish cartoonist, a regular contributor to the satirical magazine El Jueves, where he published the series Para ti, que eres joven, alongside Albert Monteys and La Parejita S.A. (the comical daily misadventures of a romantic couple), and also he does less commercial albums for Glénat.

[5] In 1995 he started the strip La Parejita S.A., for the magazine El Jueves, about the daily comic misadventures of a couple that received that same year the Còmic Salo Barcelona Award for Best Screenplay.

Also, he published a collection of short stories titled Mantecatos (2003) for Glénat[1] that was awarded best comic of Saló de Barcelona of 2004[2] and Rosenda y otros momentos pop (2005), which was a commercial failure.

On 18 July 2007 "El Jueves" featured on its front page a cartoon of him and Guillermo Torres which included an explicit scene of Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia having sex, which resulted on the retreat of that number by judge Juan del Olmo as well as a fine of 3,000 euros for the two cartoonists for the crime of insulting the Crown.

[7] In June 2014, Fontdevila announced his departure from the magazine El Jueves after the editorial RBA not allowed to publish a cover with a joke of him which referenced the abdication of the king of Spain, Juan Carlos I.