Biography

I was born in the year 1972 In the greater Bilbao city area on the Basque province of Biskay, Spain.

When I was 5 years of age I moved with my family from the industrial city to the idyllic Basque countryside.

At the age of 18, I traveled to the U.S.A.

Today I live in New York where I work as an illustrator and Graphic Designer.

Prior to this I atended my senior year of High School at DeSoto High School in DeSoto , Texas. After High School I went to Syracuse University where I graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts. The year before graduation I began working for a local animation studio, Animotion, inc. The following year after graduation I moved to New York City where I started my work "ghosting" in the comic books industry. After a relative period I successfully managed to find credited work drawing as an assistant penciler for Marvel comic's X-Force. In 2003, I began working as an inker on such comic books as Dark Horse's B.P.R.D. and Image's The Romp.

Since 2004 I have been working in the apparel industry as a designer for companies such as Freeze and Changes. In addition to that I combine traditional fine art in drawing, painting as well as new technologies such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, or HTML, with being a College level History and Art History teacher and lecturer.

Since July 25th 2009 I published my first graphic novel Joanes or the Basque whaler ( or better yet, the first installment of a series of 3) based on XIV century Basque whaling in the North Atlantic, courtesy of the Center of Basque studies of the University of Nevada and the N.A.B.O. 50th anniversary Convention.

On October 2011 I published the second Issue of Joanes " SAGA" Whale Island

According to some press releases, these books are been "praised" as the very first Basque-American comicbooks ever!!! :)

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