# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cristina-duran-costell
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:44:53.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cristina-duran-costell"
name: "Cristina Durán Costell"
slug: "cristina-duran-costell"
description: "Cristina Durán Costell is an illustrator and cartoonist. She graduated in the faculty of Fine Arts of Valencia with speciality in Drawing. While she studied she created the fanzine No Aparcar Llamo GRUA with Miguel Ángel Giner, Robin and Alberto Botella. Later, in 1993 these four people created the company LaGRUAestudio, focused on the illustration of books and advertisements, comic and animation. She worked to reactivate the Asociación Profesional de Ilustradores de Valencia (APIV) in 1997, and she was its president between the years 2006 and 2009. She also has been a member of the Board of directors of the Federación de Asociaciones de Ilustradores Profesionales (FADIP) and of the founding board of the European Illustrators Forum (EIF)."
tagline: "Spanish illustrator and cartoonist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cristina_Dur%C3%A1n_Costell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.403168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/CrisDuranLaGRUA"
    handle:    "CrisDuranLaGRUA"
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Dur%C3%A1n_Costell"
    title: "Cristina Durán Costell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Dur%C3%A1n"
    title: "Cristina Durán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Dur%C3%A1n_Costell"
    title: "Cristina Durán Costell"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Dur%C3%A1n_Costell"
    title: "Cristina Durán Costell"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Dur%C3%A1n_Costell"
    title: "Cristina Durán Costell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19998230"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump