Raquel Córcoles
Born (1986-12-31) 31 December 1986
Reus, Tarragona, Spain
Occupation(s)Comic writer and illustrator

Raquel Córcoles (born December 31, 1986), better known as Moderna de Pueblo, is a Spanish illustrator and author of comics.[1]

Biography

Corcoles studied advertising, journalism and audiovisual communication at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona and has a degree in journalism from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid.[2] She has been editor of InformativosTelecinco.com in charge of economic information. Corcoles started as a comic book illustrator in August 2011 in the magazine El Jueves, where she published a weekly comic page, and that same year she began to publish a weekly comic strip in the Cuore magazine. She also collaborates with other media such as GQ magazine and the newspaper El País.

Moderna de Pueblo

The name of Moderna de Pueblo ("Modern Villager") comes from a character created in 2010 in her blog. This character became a viral phenomenon with more than 200,000 followers on Facebook.[3] Her comics are about a twenty-year-old blonde girl who always wears sunglasses and who moves out of town to succeed in the city. There are other characters stereotypical of urban culture, such as women with everyday problems, frustrated young people, interns and hipsters.

Bibliography

Book Year Pages Publisher ISBN
Soy de Pueblo 2012 128 LUMEN 9788499471778
Los capullos no regalan flores 2013 160 LUMEN 9788426421371
El Cooltureta 2014 128 LUMEN 9788426400246
Idiotizadas: de cuentos de hadas a empoderhadas 2017 208 PLANETA 9788408176886
Coñodramas 2020 312 ZENITH 9788408233459

References

  1. ↑ Moderna de Pueblo: ¡Los capullos no regalan flores! Archived 2018-03-28 at the Wayback Machine article in En femenino April 13, 2013 (in Spanish)
  2. ↑ "Likes: Entrevista a Moderna de Pueblo". YouTube (in Spanish). 2016-03-21. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  3. ↑ Raquel Córcoles: "Moderna de Pueblo y Cooltureta no podrían ser novios, sólo amigos" interview in RTVE (May 20, 2015) (in Spanish).
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