Juanjo Guarnido

A graduate of the Granada School of Fine Arts, Guarnido started his career by creating illustrations for Spanish Marvel comics released by Planeta DeAgostini. He then moved to Madrid and worked for the Lapiz Azul studio, where he stayed for three years. It was there that he met Juan Diaz Canales, who would later write Blacksad. At that time, Disney had bought the studio owned by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi, near Paris, leaving the brothers in charge of running it. There, they produced numerous series, as well as three feature films: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules and Tarzan, which Juanjo Guarnido worked on as an animator starting in 1993. He stayed with the studio for ten years. At the same time, he discovered the rich world of French comic art and, in 2000, teamed up with Canales to launch the Blacksad series. The series was a critical success from the very first volume and won numerous awards, including Best Album and Best Artwork at the Barcelona Comic Fair, as well as the Audience Award and Best Series at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2019, he teamed up with writer Alain Ayroles to publish Les Indes fourbes (The Treacherous Indies) with Éditions Delcourt.