BIOGRAPHY:

"Born in July 1958 from a middle-class family, I was very lucky that my father was an avid reader and a lover of art, so that, ever since my early childhood, I lived among books and visited galleries and expositions. He was a weekend painter and I spent many a Sunday afternoon in the midst of the smell of turpentine.

I went to a catholic school. What I recall most vividly of all were two passions: listening to and inventing stories, as well as painting. I pursued music before facing the limits of the 24 hour day and having to relegate that interest to my chest of memories.

I started studies in architecture in university but did not finish them. It was in those years that I discovered a medium which dazzled and seduced me: comics. What was so attractive about them was that it gave me the opportunity to marry my two passions for literature and painting. At the same time, I assisted in the study of one of my professors which gave me the chance to realise that my vocation was not to be in architecture.

I decided to exchange my T-square and triangle for an improbable chance at the lottery of art. I contacted galleries and began exposing. Then I went to Barcelona, started my first book Fragments Of The Delphic Encyclopedia, and became a happy go lucky comiquero in the eighties.

From then on things picked up quickly. With the perspective of more than ten years, I look back with dizziness: thirteen books, a multitude of expositions, and a life away from publishing centres and artistic cliques neither of which I have an affinity for."
Miguelanxo Prado

Resources:
Miguelanxo Prado at NBM
Miguelanxo Prado at DC/Vertigo

Reviews:
iComics: Daily Delirium

Daily Delirium
NBM, 2003
A collection of tales of outrageous irony and absurdity about the daily travails and absurdities we face in life with an occasional bite of lunacy.

"Brilliantly drawn and coloured, Prado's work most nearly approximates sarcastic sketch humour, like American comedy-club or Saturday Night Live fare. But it is much angrier and much bitterer. Damn funny, though."
Booklist

Streak Of Chalk
NBM, 1994
A young man spends his summer on a tiny, uncharted island in the Atlantic where he falls in love with a beautiful writer named Ana and finds himself entangled in a web of obsession, deceit, and violence, where nothing is quite what it seems.

"Although the story is sparse, there's intrigue, sex and, more importantly, Spanish artist Prado's sumptuous illustrations and exquisite use of colours, to keep the reader's attention. Starting with vividly clear greens and blues, the colours changes with the mood of the narrative, with lavender-streaked shadows moving in as the mystery grows, while deeper blues and reddish browns signal violence and loss."
Publishers Weekly

Tangents
NBM, 1996
In a collection of short stories Prado illustrates a number of fleeting relationships between people of power and ambition, where feelings are coldly subjected to careers and social climbing with poignant and dramatic results.

"Absolutely brilliant! Prado is a genius!!"
Staros Report

Books:
Daily Delirium (2003)
Peter & The Wolf (1998)
Tangents (1996)
Streak Of Chalk (1994)

Short Stories:
The Heart Of A Star in Sandman: Endless Nights (2003)