Joaquín Reyes

Joaquín Reyes (Albacete, 1974) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Cuenca. He is a draftsman, actor, and comedian. Reyes is renowned for his extraordinary parodies, but he rose to fame earlier with the shows Muchachada Nui and La Hora Chanante. As an actor, he tours the Iberian Peninsula with his friend and actor Ernesto Sevilla in the show Viéjovenes. Since 2014, he has collaborated on El Intermedio, where he parodies various political and television figures with his distinctive style. In 2017, he began hosting Cero en Historia. He is also the author of the illustrated books Ellos mismos (Reservoir Books, 2011) and Realidad a la piedra (Reservoir Books, 2013). In 2021, he published his first novel, High (Subidón, Blackie Books).

Reviews

Joaquín Reyes’s literary debut. A frenetic, hilarious novel with a dazzling finale, exploring vanity and hypocrisy in the entertainment world and our most intimate doubts. Behind every great writer, there is a great reader—and Joaquín Reyes has read it all. His passion for the most profound Russian literature proves that humor is indeed a very serious matter. A novel that embodies its own title: set over a single week in the life of its protagonist, a comedian at his worst and best moments, depicting seven days that could end his life—beginning with laughter and misery, rising ever higher until it explodes in an apotheosis of tears and laughter.
Blackie Books
With great narrative wisdom, High condenses a day in the life of a modern comedian and makes him descend from a family that dates back centuries—from Lázaro de Tormes to the timid Gregorian dummies, from the fool to the modern 'phantom'.
Carlos Pardo

Bibliography

Subidón

High

Co-authorship

Children´s Books

Collaborations

Joaquín Reyes