AJUBEL the 90s

Considered one of the most important graphic and satirical humorists of the 20th century in Cuba, Ajubel began his European era in 1991, collaborating as a graphic editorialist for La Vanguardia, Le Monde Diplomatique (Spanish version) and the newspaper El Mundo.

This was the beginning of a period in which, within a few years, he became a reference in the world of editorial and children's illustration, being recognised by prestigious national and international awards, such as the Spanish National Illustration Prize and the Bologna Ragazzi Award.

These drawings, made with nib, Indian ink and occasionally acrylics, are a selection of his works for the press in those early years in Spain and maintain the expressionist aesthetic that characterised him in his Cuban period.

He currently lives in Valencia, Spain, where he has his graphic design and illustration studio.

Other published titles in iTunes Store:

1. The Cat that Walked by Himself. Selected by Apple for the international launch of the iPad Mini, 2012. Selected by Apple as one of the 5 Best Books of 2012 published with iBooks Author. The Cat that Walked by Himself, one of Rudyard Kipling’s masterpieces.

2. Robinson Crusoe. Bologna Ragazzi Award (the Pulitzer award of illustrated children’s books). Robinson Crusoe has won 5 international awards from the most important illustration award ceremonies. This book is considered one of the undisputed classics of children's literature: the cost of dreams, the despair of loneliness, the longing to return, themes as old as literature itself.

3. The Sad Night of Chano Pozo by the prestigious writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes with illustrations by Ajubel, is a gripping and sobering, if little-known, story, that of the overwhelming success and devastating downfall of one of the most transcendent Cuban musicians of the 20th century, the percussionist Chano Pozo, protagonist alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker of one of the 20th century’s great musical revolutions: Bebop and Latin Jazz.