Alberto Vázquez (artist)


Alberto Vázquez Rico is a Spanish comic book artist and filmmaker born in A Coruña in 1980. He has received three Goya Awards for his animated films. His most famous work is , a feature-length animated movie based on his own graphic novel. He is also a drummer in the Mano de obra band.

Career

He studied on University of Vigo and University of Valencia. One of the co-founders of Polaqia comic-book creators group, he published his first album in 2002. His comic books include Freda, Psiconautas and El evangelio de Judas. His drawings were published in El País, he also illustrated works of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.
In 2011, together with Pedro Rivero, he adapted his own graphic novel, Psiconautas, in a form of a short animated film under the title Birdboy. It won a Goya Award and encouraged them to direct the 76-minute version, , which premiered in 2016. In the next year, Vázquez received two more Goya Awards: one for the best animated feature film and one for a short.
On June 16, 2020, a trailer was released for his next feature film, Unicorn Wars, which is an adult animated film about the gruesome war against teddy bears and unicorns, or as the teddy bears call them, devils.

Filmography

Feature-length

Goya Awards

Other awards