World Chess Championship 2013: Andres Guadalupe's Spanish Cartoons on Anand and Carlsen

Chess and humour do go together. Andrés Guadalupe, a cartoonist and illustrator, has played chess ever since he can remember. He has been a club player as well and has always, always been passionate about chess. The Anand – Carlsen Chennai World Chess Championship 2013 is a special opportunity for him to explore his love for both chess and cartooning. Of course, a cartoonist always sees what mere mortals cannot!

“I’ve been making cartoons many years ago and not only chess, editorial cartoons, graphic humor in general, illustrations as well. Many subjects,’ says Guadalupe, adding, “I’m doing chess cartoons regularly and now eventually doing a serial cartoons about the world chess championship.”

“My favorite cartoons always are the last, in this case the ones about the world chess championship.”

Guadalupe says, “My favorite player is Mikhail Tal. And finally my subjects apart from chess obviously, are editorial cartoons. My subjects are Everything. The life that surrounds me.” Guadalupe begins with paper first, pencil and ink, then scans and puts in the text and coloring in Photoshop.

He says, what a whole lot of us want to say all the time, “I would like that the chess was as popular as the football and other similar sports.”Don’t forget to check outAndrés Guadalupe’s great blog ‘Ajedrez con humor‘. It’s in Spanish, but don’t you worry, cartooning, like chess is a universal language.