Miguelanxo Prado Explained

Birth Date:	1958
Birth Place:	A Coruña, Galicia
Nationality:	Spanish
Area:	artist, writer
Notable Works:	Trazo de Tiza
Awards:	full list

Miguelanxo Prado (pronounced as /gl/) is a Galician comic book creator. He was born in A Coruña, Spain in 1958.

Biography

Prado studied architecture, wrote novels and painted before his career in comics.

He worked for several magazines and wrote delirious and fierce life-chronicles. He published his first albums at Les Humanoïdes Associés: Chienne de Vie (1988), C'est du Sport (1989) and Y'a Plus de Justice (1991).

His best-known comic book is Trazo de Tiza or Trait de craie (Streak of Chalk, 1992). This is a dream-like, experimental "impossible" story about a man on an island, unable to distinguish dream from reality, or present from past. For this album, Prado won several awards, among others the Alph'Art for the Best Foreign Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, receiving this award for the second time; the first time was in 1991 for Manuel Montano. In April 2007 he was awarded the Grand Prize at the Salón del Cómic of Barcelona.^[1]

Prado decorated the doors and created the image for O Garaxe Hermético, a comic book and illustration school in Pontevedra, founded by fellow Galician creator Kiko da Silva.^[2]

Animation

Prado did character design for the animated in the late '90s. His animated feature film, was released in 2007.^[3]

Bibliography

• Chienne de vie, 1988, absurd chronicles of the day-to-day life
• Demain les dauphins, 1988,
• Manuel Montano, 1989,
• C'est du sport, 1989, absurd chronicles of the day-to-day life
• Stratos, 1990
• Y a plus de justice, 1990
• Trait de craie, 1993,
• Pierre et le loup (Peter And the Wolf), 1995, adaptation of Prokofievs story,
• Chroniques absurdes, Tome 1 : Un monde délirant ("Quotidien délirant"), 1996, absurd chronicles of the day-to-day life,
• Chroniques absurdes, Tome 2 : Un monde de brutes,
• Chroniques absurdes, Tome 3 : Un monde barbare,
• Venins de femmes (Tangents),
• -Dream: The Heart of a Star Neil Gaiman, 2003
• Nostalgies de Belo Horizonte quand j'étais un autre, 2005,
• Papeles dispersos (2009) (Norma Editorial)
• Ardalén (2012) (Norma Editorial)
• Papeles dispersos II (2015) (Norma Editorial)
• Presas fáciles (2016) (Norma Editorial)
• El pacto del Letargo (2020) Norma^[4]

Awards

• 1991: Best Foreign Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France^[5]
• 1994: Best Foreign Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival^[6]
• 1998: Best German-language Comic for Children and Young People at the Max & Moritz Prizes, Germany^[7]
• 2004: Eisner Award for Best Anthology, U.S.^[8]
• 2007: Grand Prize, Salón del Comic, Barcelona, Spain^[9]

Sources

• • Prado profile, Readyourselfraw.com
• Miguelanxo Prado albums, Bedetheque.com
• Prado publications dans (A SUIVRE), Bdoubliees.com

Footnotes

External links

• Miguelanxo Prado biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
• Miguelanxo Prado biography on Guia del Comic
• Miguelanxo Prado biography on Casterman
• Khoury, George. The World of Miguelanxo Prado, Pop!, Comic Book Resources, April 26, 2009

Notes and References

1. Web site: El Pais. Miguelanxo Prado gana el Gran Premio del Salón del Cómic de Barcelona. April 20, 2007. Spanish.
2. Web site: Conde . María . 2012-04-22 . O Garaxe Hermético se destapa al mejor cómic e ilustración . https://web.archive.org/web/20230529191022/https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/pontevedra/2012/04/22/garaxe-hermetico-destapa-mejor-comic-ilustracion/0003_201204P22C8991.htm . 2023-05-29 . 2023-05-29 . La Voz de Galicia . es.
3. Web site: Holland . Jonathan . De Profundis. Variety . January 28, 2007 .
4. Web site: EL PACTO DEL LETARGO - Norma Editorial . www.normaeditorial.com . es.
5. Web site: Miguelanxo Prado . Lake Como Comic Art Festival . 26 March 2019.
6. Web site: Le Prix du Festival International de la Bande Dessinée Angoulême . www.hahnlibrary.net.
7. Web site: Adair . Torsten . Syndicated Comics . The Beat . 22 June 2014.
8. News: 2004 Eisner Award Nominees Announced . CBR . 8 April 2004.
9. Web site: El Salón del Cómic clausura su XXXI edición con 106.000 visitantes y con el reconocimiento a Miguelanxo Prado . www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias . es . 14 April 2013.