Álvaro ORTIZ

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(Zaragoza, 1983) Studied Graphic Design at the School of Design of Aragon and Illustration at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. At the end of 2010 he self-published Fjorden, before undertaking Cenizas, published in 2012, a comic made with the support of the Alhóndiga Bilbao fellowship at the Maison des Autors de Angoulême. In 2014 Murderabilia came out, and in 2015 Rituales, made at the Academia de España in Rome, thanks to a MAEC-AECID fellowship. He also published Dos holandeses en Nápoles (2016), a comic commissioned by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Viajes (2016), and during the Covid-19 pandemic, El murciélago sale a por birras (2020) and Pedro y Maili (2021). His latest comic, La pequeña genia y la partida de shatranj (2022), won the Best Children's Comic award at the Valencia Comic Fair, and the award for Best Work at the Zaragoza Comic Fair. The sequel, La pequeña genia y el monstruo del valle, will be published in 2023. In Spain his comics have been published by Astiberri (two with the Caramba label) and some are also published in countries such as France (Rackham), Italy (Bao), Germany (Egmont), Poland (Timof) and the USA (Top Shelf).

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