Ana Miralles

A leading comic artist and illustrator of the Spanish School, born in 1959 in Madrid, Ana Mirallès made her debut comic art in 1982 for the magazine Rambla. She then worked as an illustrator for various magazines before publishing her first graphic novel, El Brillo de una Mirada, in 1990, based on a script by Emilio Ruiz. The book was soon reissued in Spain, Italy, and France under the title Corps à corps (Glénat, 1993). After that Ana Mirallès released the Eva Medusa trilogy (Glénat, 1991), written by Antonio Segura. In 1997, she reunited with Émilio Ruiz to adapt Juan Eslava Galàn’s best-selling novel À la recherche de la licorne (In Search of the Unicorn, Glénat). In 2001, Ana Mirallès began drawing the series that would make her famous, the erotic saga Djinn (Dargaud, 2001–2016), written by Jean Dufaux. Since its creation, the thirteen-volume series has sold over a million copies worldwide. With Émilio Ruiz as writer, she also published Mano en Mano (2008, Dargaud), Muraqqa' (2011, 12bis), and Wáluk (2011–2020, Astiberri) in two volumes. In 2024, she released Ava, quarante-huit heures dans la vie d'Ava Gardner (Dargaud). 

In 2009, she became the first woman to receive the highly prestigious Grand Prize at the Barcelona International Comics Fair, the highest honor awarded in Spain. In 2025, Ana Miralles received the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Among the other international awards she has earned are: the Haxtur Award for Best Long Story for Eva Medusa in 1993; and the Haxtur Award for Best Cover for the first volume of Djinn in 2003. Her artwork was featured in two dedicated auctions, at Christie’s in 2018 and at Daniel Maghen Auctions in 2022. Also in 2022, Éditions Daniel Maghen published her very first art book, titled ANA. Ana Mirallès lives and works in Spain.