Para qué sirven las personas?

Para qué sirven las personas? is an intimate visual archive by painter and cartoonist Panchopepe. Over the course of three years, the artist transformed a found copy of the Civil and Commercial Procedure Code of the Nation—rescued from the street—into a personal sketchbook. Within its 600 printed pages, legal language and imagery coexist, creating a subtle, humorous dialogue between text and painting. Together, these works form a wide-ranging catalogue that reflects the artist’s wit, sensitivity, and restless creative energy.

Published as the inaugural—and only—title of Villacrema, a brief editorial project by comic book artist Jo Murua and Belen, editor at Proyecto Piranha, the book stands as both an artwork in itself and a document of an ephemeral publishing experiment.