FLAVITA BANANA

Flavita Banana (Flavia Álvarez-Pedrosa) was born in 1987. She studied Arts and Design and the Illustration program, both at the Escola Massana in Barcelona, ​​juggling every job imaginable. At 26, after giving up on any other style, she began drawing humorous cartoons, with a simple line and the humor of someone who no longer expects anything. At 29, she was able to leave office life thanks to collaborations with S Moda, Orgullo y Satisfacción, Mongolia Magazine, and El País. She has published the books Curvy (Lumen, 2016) as an illustrator, and Las Cosas del Querer (Lumen, 2017), Archivos Estelares (Caramba!, 2017), and Archivos Cósmicos (Caramba!, 2019) as an author. In 2018, she received the Gat Perich Award for graphic humor.

His work has been described as sad humor, a mixture of local color and absurdity.

Su trabajo ha sido descrito como humor triste, una mezcla de costumbrismo y absurdidad.