Career
Early works Maturity (since 1995) In 1997 he began the strip, Para ti, que eres joven, a two page strip with jokes with youth tematics for the magazine El Jueves alongside Albert Monteys. Between 2000 and 2004 he was editor of the magazine El Jueves. Also, he published a collection of short stories titled Mantecatos (2003) for Glénational that was awarded best comic of Saló de Barcelona of 2004 and Rosenda y otros momentos popular (2005), which was a commercial failure.
In 2007, he published his album Super Puta (Glénational), a personal project that he had being developed over the previous two years applying automatic writing to comics and he leaves his collaboration in Regió 7 to start a daily joke cartoon section in the newspaper Público and collaborated with El Manglar.
Manel kept his section in Público until the end of its print edition in 2012. On July 18, 2007, "El Jueves" featured on its front page a cartoon of him and Guillermo Torres which included an explicit scene of Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia having sex, which resulted on the retreat of that number by judge Juan del Olmo as well as a fine of 3,000 euros for the two cartoonists for the crime of insulting the Crown.
On March 2012 he started publishing cartoons in the online newspaper eldiario.es. = Abandonment of El Jueves In June 2014, Fontdevila announced his departure from the magazine El Jueves after the editorial RBA not allowed to publish a cover with a joke of him which referenced the abdication of the king of Spain, Juan Carlos I. Other cartoonist also left the magazine.
Those comic artist published on 18 June, the day before the coronation of Felipe VI, an online comic with jokes about the event titled Orgullo y satisfacción.
He was later hired by the monthly satirical magazine Mongolia.