Raquel Córcoles (born December 31, 1986), better known as Moderna de Pueblo, is a Spanish illustrator and author of comics.Moderna de Pueblo: ¡Los capullos no regalan flores! article in En femenino April 13, 2013
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. 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.Raquel Córcoles: "Moderna de Pueblo y Cooltureta no podrían ser novios, sólo amigos" interview in RTVE (May 20, 2015) . 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 +BookYearPagesPublisherISBNSoy de Pueblo2012128LUMEN9788499471778Los capullos no regalan flores2013160LUMEN9788426421371El Cooltureta2014128LUMEN9788426400246Idiotizadas: de cuentos de hadas a empoderhadas 2017208PLANETA9788408176886Coñodramas 2020312ZENITH9788408233459
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