Manuel Álvarez-Junco (1948, Spain)

• Emeritus Professor (PhD), former Director of Image & Design Department at the Complutense University of Madrid.
• Graphic artist and cartoonist in publications in Spain (El País newspaper, Interviú magazine), Mexico (Newsweek magazine) and USA (Tláloc, Saturday Review magazine). Junco artwork in World Press Cartoon 2021 and 2022.
• Success Award Aydin Dogan Vafki, Estambul, 2005. Best Spanish Artist Award 2020 by FECO (Federation of Cartoonists Organizations).
• Most known books on Humor Theory by Manuel A. Junco are Diseño de lo Incorrecto (Argentina, La Crujía, 2009), Hammer and Mirror (Turpin, Madrid 2017); El humor gráfico (Machado Ed., Madrid, 2016), Imágenes cómicas y festivas en la Grecia Clásica (Machado Ed., Madrid, 2023) and Una calavera del Montón (Machado Ed., Madrid, 2025).
• Solo shows in Italy, USA, México, China, Kuwait, Colombia and Spain.
• President of Frente Viñetista, visual humor Spanish Association.
• Member of the Direction of Instituto Quevedo del Humor, Spain.
• Jury in the National Design Awards, Spain.