Manel (Man) - 1 Original drawing - Chiste - 1972

A brilliant joke from this great cartoonist.
Manel began his professional career in 1961 at the agency Selecciones Ilustradas, drawing pages, handling backgrounds and inking a multitude of comic strips, especially westerns like Buffalo Bill, which was published on the Swedish market unsigned.
In 1966 he published in Mata Ratos and the following year he joined the Catalan magazine Cavall Fort with the series El Nasi.
The following year, and for the same publication, he began one of his longest-running works: Els Cepats, which premiered in issue 89 and said goodbye in issue 247 (dated 1973). “I remember that the name Els Cepats was the idea of the endearing Albert Jané (the magazine director). They went from being two bulky guys (two ‘cepats’) to the protagonist always being one, the son,” explains the author (Cavall Fort, 945-946, December 2001).
Years later he returned to the same magazine to sign a long adventure with scripts by María Novell: De Balaguer a Kum-Ram (1969).
Throughout these pages we follow the adventures of two youngsters, Baruc i Rogeró, on a journey full of detours through the Mediterranean of Pedro II’s era.
This is an adventure drawn in the purest classic Franco-Belgian comics style, with echoes of both Johan and Pirluit and Astérix, which demonstrates Manel's ability to adapt to different registers.