Núria Pompeia
Núria Vilaplana i Buixons (1931 – 25 December 2016), better known as Núria Pompeia, was a Catalan Spanish cartoonist, graphic humorist, journalist in the Catalan and Castilian languages, and a Catalan writer in Catalan. Born and raised in Dreta de l'Eixample neighborhood, she studied art at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. She published her first cartoons in Oriflama in 1969.
Núria Pompeia
- Born
- 1931. · Barcelona.
- Died
- 2016. · Barcelona.
- Nationality
- Spain.
- Occupation
- journalist, writer, literary critic, draftsperson, cartoonist, novelist and illustrator.
- Fields
- comic.
- Education
- Autonomous University of Barcelona.
- Honours
- Saint George's Cross.
- Languages
- Spanish and Catalan.
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Núria Vilaplana i Buixons (1931 – 25 December 2016), better known as Núria Pompeia, was a Catalan Spanish cartoonist, graphic humorist, journalist in the Catalan and Castilian languages, and a Catalan writer in Catalan. Born and raised in Dreta de l'Eixample neighborhood, she studied art at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. She published her first cartoons in Oriflama in 1969.
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Comics and graphic humor
Comics and graphic humor
Her drawings often denoted social class, the bourgeoisie, or criticism of sexism. In more laid-back humor magazines, she also depicted censorship in a comic manner. Pompeia published novels and short stories, and worked in journalism. She died in Barcelona on 25 December 2016, aged 85.
Núria Pompeia studied at Autonomous University of Barcelona. The recorded working language is Spanish and Catalan. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are comic. Work by Núria Pompeia is recorded in the collections of Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Distinctions recorded are Saint George's Cross.
• Maternasis, 1967 • Y fueron felices comiendo perdices, 1970 • Pels segles dels segles, 1971 • La educación de Palmira, 1972 • Mujercitas, 1975 • Cambios y Recambios, 1991
Narrative
Narrative
• Cinc cèntims, 1981 (short stories) • Mals endreços, 1997 (short stories) • Inventari de l’últim dia, 1986 (novel)
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Life and career
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1931
Núria Pompeia born at Barcelona.
2016
Núria Pompeia died at Barcelona.
Awards
• 2000: Gold Medal of the City of Barcelona for Artistic Merit • 2007: Creu de Sant Jordi
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- 1.http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20161226/muere-dibujante-periodista-nuria-pompeia-pioneras-del-comic-feminista-espana/1460040.shtml
- 2."La seriedad de dos humoristas gráficos. Nuria Pompeia y Quino han publicado dos nuevos libro", de J.J. Navarro Arisa, El País, 25 d'abril del 1983 (en castellano).
- 3."La imagen de la mujer en el cómic: Cómic feminista, cómic futurista y de ciencia-ficción", estudi de María Antonia Díez Balda, del "Grupo de teoría feminista del Seminario de Estudios de la Mujer de Salamanca", Centre d'Estudis de la Dona de la Universitat de Salamanca, 2002? (en castellano).
- 4.Las seguidoras de Núria Pompeia, frente al masculinizado mundo del cómic.
- 5.Perfil biogràfic de la Núria Pompeia en Periodistes en temps difícils.
- 6.Fitxa de la Núria Pompeia en Comiclopedia (en inglés)
- 7.2004. Memòria de la transició a Espanya i a Catalunya: 5, Els mitjans de comunicació. Vol. 5 de Memòria de la transició a Espanya. Editor Antoni Segura. Con Rafael Aracil Martí, Antoni Segura, Macià Alavedra i Moner. Ed. Universitat Barcelona, 215 pp. ISBN 84-475-2773-5, ISBN 978-84-475-2773-1 en línea
- 8.Biografia de la Núria Pompeia.
- 9.Biografia de la Núria Pompeia a l' ADPC (Asociación de Mujeres Periodistas de Cataluña)
- 10.Mujeres en el mundo : historia, retos y movimientos. 978-84-206-0916-4.
- 11.Ángeles González Sinde. Pompeia.
- 12.Maternasis.
- 13.Núria Pompeia. Ayer, hoy y siempre.
- 14.¡Mujercitas del mundo entero, uníos! Autoras de cómic adulto (1967-1993).
- 15.¡Mujercitas del mundo entero, uníos! Pioneras del cómic underground adulto.
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