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Madrid, 1957. Author
belonging to a later generation to which he usually occupies this blog, generation without compromising the classics and began relying on them, evolve rapidly towards another way of counting y entender la historieta, intentando expresarse con las mínimas concesiones posibles.
Conozco a Federico desde sus comienzos y tengo la impresión de que dibujar lo que ve le resulta fácil, de hecho, dibujar la realidad está al alcance de muchos profesionales; dibujar lo que no se ve, en cambio, no está al alcance de cualquiera y eso es lo que el hace, dibujar lo que muy pocos son capaces de plasmar en papel: los sentimientos, los sueños, el amor y el desamor, la tristeza, la poesía…

Publica su primer trabajo profesional en la revista francesa Pilote ( Jardín , 1979), a través del guionista Ricardo Barreiro . This relation has no continuity, but opens the doors of English publishers of the time. So he began to collaborate in the journals of New Frontier, Totem and Boomerang with short stories and shortly afterwards Rambla ( Cavaliers gave nocte , 1982-83) and Cimoc (Standard), with screenwriter F. Perez Navarro in the series Earth SA (1982).


In January 1984 the legendary magazine appears Madriz, and is one of the first collaborators who tells his manager, Felipe Hernández Cava to your pages. Quarter begins there really be an author complete with scripts Elisa Gálvez and his own will flail a series of short stories that represent a genuine break with many of the known conventions of the comic, from the design of the page to a way of telling from the authenticity very little personal seen before. This collaboration lasts until late 1987 when the magazine closed.
Some of these pages are compiled on the album: The Edge (Ed. Shadows, 1985).


In 1987 he began to publish in the journal Alfoz memories Amorós, scripted by Hernández Cava and published in album with the title Memories of Love: Signed, Mister Foo in 1988 (Media Scrambled).

In 1991 works on the books Children's Rights (Ikusager) and English Pop (Casset) with color stories.

published this year in Leon Doderlín (Casset) with your own scripts and Elisa Gálvez , character reflection of the author himself, this album returns pages published over nearly eight years, first in Madriz and Media then scrambled.


In 1993 he was commissioned to do the second part of Lope de Aguirre , following the first Enrique Breccia and is curious, as noted Hernández Cava, which is more " Brecciana " the work of Federico that Enrique itself, with a gorgeous color, narrative, for me, a masterpiece of the comic to the height of Alberto Breccia own.


In this same year 1993, Ikusager publishes three other titles The memory of love, always Cava scripts: The Light of a century dead, calm and Ars Wings prophetic, with style changes in each of them, some close to those of American masters like Toth, Crane Sieckles or another display of virtuosity for those who want to see. This series, from whom the old serials, review of our historical past, from the war in Africa to the Civil War.

Light from a dead century.

calm wings.

Ars prophetic.

published in 1996 in album The device pervers or (Metro) published serially in the Top comics magazine in 1994, again scripted by Hernández Cava and received the award for best film of the year in English Salo del Comic de Barcelona 1997. This book reflects the moral degradation of the English Civil War while paying tribute to the authors of those books adventures of the 40 and 50.


In the same year he published in France the album Relations, published in Spain under the title Sins Entido Relations, where he shows his soul with a simple and free demolishing style ornaments. Simple (Reporter) is exactly the title given to the album in Spain when you edit Ponent in 1999, which is like a kind of stepping on the path taken in Relations , but with some biographical touches.


From 1998 to the present, which still continues, teams up again with Cava the name of Cain to publish the daily newspaper La Razón a bullet, where again boasts Federico his taste for the registry changes, then while maintaining the same spirit, each day the drawing has a different graphic style.


In 2007 is published collection of these works on an album and called: Cain (Nausicaa).

in 2010 has been published so far his last work Sandman, written by Mai Prol, based on black and white illustrations full page.
Interested in many other disciplines besides the cartoon and illustration, Federico del Barrio also writes plays.