Joan Cornellà valuation
Draws wordless, pastel-coloured comic strips in which every joke ends badly.
Joan Cornellà was born in Barcelona in 1981.
What a work by Joan Cornellà is worth
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Bio
Joan Cornellà was born in Barcelona in 1981. His six-panel comics, drawn in a flat, cheerful style and almost always without words, lead smiling characters through scenes that turn suddenly violent, grotesque or absurd, and they found an enormous audience online. Alongside the comics he paints, makes sculpture and releases prints, carrying the same deadpan characters across every medium.
Much of what comes to market is prints, editions, sculptures and vinyl figures, with original drawings and paintings the scarcer category. Editions vary by size, colourway and edition number, and signed editions need telling apart from the unsigned merchandise of the same images that circulates widely. For sculptures and figures, the edition information, the original box and any certificate matter, as does whether a piece has sat in sunlight, which fades the flat pastel colours.
The Josep Coll Prize, El Jueves and Mox Nox
Cornellà graduated in fine arts and drew for publications including El Periódico, Ara and The New York Times. In 2009 he won the third Josep Coll Prize with the album Abulio, published by Glénat the next year, and since 2010 he has drawn cartoons for the magazine El Jueves.
Fracasa Mejor, a selection of his black and white cartoons of 2010 to 2012, much of it previously unpublished, appeared in 2012, and Mox Nox followed from Bang Ediciones in 2013.
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