University of Technology, Arts and Design

Álvaro Órtiz

  • Teacher
  • Cartoonist and comic book writer at Astiberri Ediciones.

Illustrator and comics author, he has published titles like Cenizas, Murderabilia, Rituales, El murciélago sale a por birras, and more recently his first comic for children’s audiences La pequeña genia y la partida de shatranj. All of them published in Spain by the Astiberri publishing house, and later translated in countries such as France, Germany, Poland, Italy and the USA.

Cenizas was able to do it at La Maison des Auteurs de Angoulême, with the help of the 2011 Alhóndiga-Kómik grant, and Rituals at the Real Academia de España en Roma with the help of the MAEC-AECID grant for artists in 2014-2015.