Miguel Brieva
Miguel Brieva es un humorista español. Su medio de expresión son viñetas de estilo de los años 50 y 60 y textos cortos que pueden ser historietas, aforismos, definiciones...
Comenzó autoeditándose en los primeros años del siglo XXI en la publicación Dinero. Después ha trabajado en el periódico Diagonal, El Jueves, La Vanguardia, Cinemanía, Ajoblanco, Mondo Brutto, El País y Rolling Stone, entre otros. La editorial Mondadori ha publicado, con licencia Creative Commons, recopilatorios de sus trabajos.
En sus viñetas llama mucho la atención el desajuste permanente entre la iconografía inocente del consumismo prometedor de la posguerra y un texto que lleva ese consumismo hasta extremos contradictorios, absurdos, macabros o irreales. El propio Bri
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