Miguelanxo Prado

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Miguelanxo Prado

Born	1958 A Coruña, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Area(s)	artist, writer
Notable works	Trazo de Tiza
Awards	full list

Miguelanxo Prado is a Spanish comic book creator, born in A Coruña in 1958.

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 Awards
4 Sources
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Trait de Craie, 1994

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's animated feature film, De Profundis was released in 2007.^[2]

[edit] Bibliography

Chienne de vie, 1988, absurd chronicles of the day-to-day life
Demain les dauphins, 1988, ISBN 2-7316-0598-7
Manuel Montano, 1989, ISBN 2-203-33831-8
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, ISBN 2-203-33855-5
Pierre et le loup (Peter And the Wolf, 1995, adaptation of Prokofievs story, ISBN 2-203-18218-0
Chroniques absurdes, Tome 1 : Un monde délirant ("Quotidien délirant"), 1996, absurd chronicles of the day-to-day life, ISBN 2-8001-3580-8
Chroniques absurdes, Tome 2 : Un monde de brutes, ISBN 2-8001-3606-5
Chroniques absurdes, Tome 3 : Un monde barbare, ISBN 2-8001-3680-4
Venins de femmes (Tangents), ISBN 1-56163-148-5
The Sandman: Endless Nights -Dream: The Heart of a Star Neil Gaiman, 2003 ISBN 1401200893
Nostalgies de Belo Horizonte quand j'étais un autre, 2005, ISBN 2-203-35923-4

[edit] Awards

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