In addition to all this, since 1998 Miguelanxo Prado has been the director of Viñetas desde el Atlántico, the international comic fair held in his city, A Coruña, where he has carried out intense work to promote comics and illustration. In 2006 he presented De Profundis, his first full-length animated film, nominated for «Mejor Película de Animación» (“Best animated film”) at the Premios Goya going on to, in 2013, winning the Premio Nacional del Cómic (National Comic Award) for his graphic novel Ardalén (Norma, 2012).

This Galician illustrator began his career at the fanzine Zero, followed by other mags such as Cairo, Cimoc, Creepy, El Jueves and Zona 84, with series like «Crónicas incongruentes», «Quotidiana delirante», «Stratos» and «Tangencias».Īt the start of the 90s, his work begins to focus on the design of animated characters such as those created for the Galician TV children’s programme Xabarín Club, or the American series Men in Black, produced by Steven Spielberg. Ardalén : Prado, Miguelanxo: : Boeken Selecteer uw cookievoorkeuren We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools die nodig zijn zodat je aankopen kan doen, en om je winkelervaringen te verbeteren en om onze diensten te leveren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. On Wednesday 21 June, the protagonist of the cultural sponsorship programme 12miradas :: Riverside, sponsored by our company in collaboration with the Laboratorio Creativo Vilaseco, will be the Galician illustrator Miguelanxo Prado, who will be sharing his sources of inspiration through his 12 miradas (12 views). Drawing on Anne Whitehead's recent discussion of modes of inscription and collective memory, this article explores the representation of memory and the fantastic in Miguelanxo Prado's 2012 graphic novel Ardalén, noting the strong implications of Ardalén's main character's incapacity to distinguish between what he lived and what he heard in the context of the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain's early 21st century.The Galician artist, Miguelanxo Prado will share his experience with us at the next 12 Miradas :: Riverside event, taking place on Wednesday 21 at the Galería Vilaseco in A Coruña. Blurry margins exist metaphorically in the book's story as well as visually in its images, both within its panels and in its gutters. Appropriate to its title, this winner of the 2012 National Spanish Comics Prize blurs lines between the real and the imaginary, between self and other, between land and sea, and between life and death.

In the fictional tale, this sea breeze carries with it not just air and smells, but also stories, as well as living sea creatures. Harris (Bennington College) explains how the blurred lines between real and imaginary, self and other, in Miguelanxo Prados Ardaln allude to the Recovery of.

The title of Miguelanxo Prado's Ardalén is a word invented by its author, but which refers to a real phenomenon: a long-distance wind that carries the scent of salt and sea far inland from the coast.

Ardalén by Miguelanxo Prado