The “Graphic Humor” series collects each year an important fragment of this genre, so followed and expected by the public.
This year, the protagonist of the stamp issued by Correos is Flavia Álvarez-Pedrosa Pruvost, better known as Flavita Banana.
The artist, whose work has been described as sad humor mixed with traditionalism and absurdity, began drawing humorous cartoons at the age of 26.
She has collaborated with media such as S Moda, El País or Mongolia. In 2018 she won the Gat Perich International Humor Award and in 2023 she was awarded the Mingote award.
Among her publications, The Things of Love, Stellar Archives and Lunar Archives stand out.
Flavita Banana portrays human relationships, climate change and social inequalities in an unsurpassable way.
In her small works of art in the form of vignettes, we can all see reflected some aspect of our life, a behavior or a reality that perhaps we normally ignore and that suddenly wakes us up in one fell swoop.
For the author, humor is a way of expressing oneself, the most universal way of communicating that exists and that allows for the treatment and transmission of more delicate topics or those that are difficult to communicate in natural language.
The main block sheet shows an illustration about human evolution until reaching the seal in which the last link of the chain appears, represented by a woman, together with a man who has not gone beyond the first and aims to explain how the human being has arrived where it is.
With this vignette Flavita Banana once again addresses the issue of machismo, one of the most recurrent themes of the artist, who considers herself a feminist, meaning that she agrees that all people, regardless of gender, have the same abilities and should have the same opportunities.
In summary, Flavita Banana, who defines herself as a realist and nonconformist, is one of the most important representatives of this spontaneous, critical and fundamental genre that many people expect every day.
