Miguelanxo Prado () is a Galician

comic book creator developed specialized terminology. Several attempts have been made to formalize and define the terminology of comics by authors such as Will Eisner, Scott McCloud, R. C. Harvey and Dylan Horrocks. Much of the terminology in English is under di ...

. He was born in

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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

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: ''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

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, 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. 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.

Animation

Prado did character design for the animated '' Men In Black: The Series'' in the late '90s. His animated feature film, ' was released in 2007.

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

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s 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''), * '' The Sandman: Endless Nights -Dream: The Heart of a Star''

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, 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

Awards

* 1991: Best Foreign Comic Book at the

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* 1994: Best Foreign Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival * 1998: Best German-language Comic for Children and Young People at the

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* 2004:

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for Best Anthology,

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* 2007: Grand Prize, Salón del Comic, Barcelona, Spain

Sources

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Prado profile
Readyourselfraw.com

Bedetheque.com

Bdoubliees.com ;Footnotes

External links

on Lambiek Comiclopedia

on Guia del Comic
Miguelanxo Prado biography
on Casterman * Khoury, George
The World of Miguelanxo Prado
Pop!,

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