Among the many awards that crown his career, Max has the National Award for Illustration (97), the Ignatz (99), one of the largest U.S. and the Grand Prize Salo Barcelona International (00). The concern of this artist led him to found his own publishing company, INREV Edicions, under whose label released one of the most innovative publications of cartoons of recent times: "NSLM", formerly known as "We are the dead." Each of the illustrations of this comic, as few staff, hides a story. The search for new artistic trails is another of his obsessions, as embodied in works ranging from the poster for a tour and John Kiko Veneno the pet dog of the centenary of the Football Club Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthrough the cover of "New Yorker" or a series of books about Sherlock Holmes.
Think you can reveal some influence as an illustrator?
Belgian illustrator Ever Meulen has been my teacher. But you can also find influences of the great illustrators Catalans, as Opisso, and certain ancient and modern painters, Brueghel, De Chirico, Grosz ...
've created covers for prestigious publications as the New Yorker. " What has meaning in your career?
on the covers of "New Yorker" is the whole story of the century illustration XX. Olympus is for any illustrator. It's like touching heaven.
Is it hard work for such prestigious clients?
course, and not just because the bar for graphic quality is very high. The New Yorker, for example, is a very focused news weekly to your audience, people of culture and the American intelligentsia. Requires a view of current affairs highly adapted to that sensibility. It is easy from here, to find a vision that can appeal to the public at each particular moment.
when illustrating record covers, do you allow full freedom?
Yes, otherwise hardly would be fine. I get the best pictures the more concerned I am at work. For discs, the better from a previous emotional identification with the music they contain. Or a personal connection with the musicians, as has happened in most of my work in this field. A cover should be consistent with what is going to contain. May be with the atmosphere of music, or the topics of literature, or the attitude of the musician or band, or just the album title. But illustration is to communicate, and it is very difficult to communicate or convey something if that something you did not previously infected.
The children's book illustration is also one of your strengths.
I really enjoy working for the youngest readers. I still remember vividly how I introduced into wonderful worlds through pictures in books in my childhood. Few feelings are like that.
Where do you feel more comfortable in the field "cartoon or illustration?
In both areas I am comfortable and well, although I confess that it is in the story where I have my little heart.
Maybe the comic is a less applauded?
Do not believe. The cartoon is a more minor, but comic readers are set much responsibility for what they like. The figure reaches many more people, in fact I find it a thousand times each day in magazines, newspapers, posters or billboards, television spots, the packaging of the super ... But almost nobody notices the author of these drawings.
What remains of those early days in the journal "The Snake"? Since then it has rained a lot.
And it will rain, thankfully. In "The Snake" was the seed of much of what I do now. It is true that some things in those early years are shamelessly naive and I fall out of hand when I see them now, but learning is not a succession of hits, but staying resolving errors. I'm talking about comics, but I also sought to incorporate some things from that time to illustrate "Espiasueños." I did not want to make a "Best of ...", I was more interested in offering a vision of teaching as a process of learning a drawer, with its initial difficulties.
fantasy predominates in all your work.
Yes, but not at all a fantasy of escape to worlds unreal. I like the imagery of fantasy, but I like to use it to play real, everyday issues. It is a technique of alienation that I seems to produce good results and good finds visual narrative. Moreover, since Freud and Jung taught us that the fantastic images from the subconscious and are by no means innocent, responding to deeper realities of the individual and society. But also try to be careful not to be too tight or subliminal. I like my drawings can understand someone other than the psychoanalysts.
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