Profile – Spanish Graphic Novelist Alfonso Zapico

CAIRO – 27 September 2017: Spanish graphic novelist Alfonso Zapico was one of the artists who participated in this year’s edition of the Cairo Comix Festival.


Zapico’s artwork featured at the Cairo Comix Festival via Zapico's Facebook

Born on 1981 in Asturias, Spain, Zapico works primarily as a freelance illustrator and graphic novelist, in addition to making artwork for educational purposes with the Principado de Asturias, designs for campaigns, and his work in newspaper illustrations. Of his graphic novels, his first published story was “La Guerra del Profesor Bertenev,” released in 2006, which he followed up with “Café Budapest” in 2008.

In 2010, Zapico was awarded the Josep Toutain del Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona Prize. He then worked on a graphic biography of Irish author James Joyce, titled “James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner—A Graphic Biography,” which was published in 2011 and won the Spanish National Comics Prize, while also receiving acclaim in Ireland.

More recently, Zapico has been hard at work on his three volume “The Ballad of the North” series, of which the first and second volumes were published in 2016 and 2017. He currently resides in France, though still visits Asturias when he can.


Zapico's Signature via CentroNiemeyer Youtube