Raul Fernandez Calleja. Madrid 1960.
His beginnings in the comic could define in a realistic and classical line, began to publish professionally in Cairo magazine in 1982 with a series written by myself: The Baker Street Irregular are short stories about some guys that engaged as assistants of the famous Sherlock Holmes.
In this series only reach a few stories published since Raul has found a way that suits you most and start publishing in the journal Madriz, led by Felipe Hernández Cava , screenwriter and author who is not publish content to a type of conventional art and asking its staff and partners work than the trite. Raul saw at once that that was what he wanted to do and starts to deliver some pages of references and personal concerns, and nothing usual in the middle.
graphic constant evolution. Closing the Madriz magazine and because of the low maturity of the English comic market will soon drift into other fields work more grateful, gradually creating a powerful personal iconography, using different media and materials, jumping from illustration to sculpture, from there to the bullet of the press and painting or writing plays. A type "irritant" for those who know him, of pure talent. You have to see him live drawing, applying color directly on the paper to understand.
So that Raul autographs. Following the completion of artwork for some stories (Roman Ele, Ediciones de la Torre. 1983, the day she disappeared Aunt Marge, SM, 1996) and various collaborations in books such as The Rights of the Child or Museum Vivo, 16 comic and his camera, sets out an ambitious project with screenwriter Hernández Cava : will come by Swinemünde .
begins to publish the series in the Sunday supplement The Country weekly deliveries of 2 pages plus a title page that is removed later, the series is finished and published in El Pais Casset collected on the album in 1991 with the title Berlin 1931, also published this book in the Ed . Amok, 3 French editions in 1998, 99 and 2000 and Avant-Verlag, Germany, 2001, along with a couple of stories relating to the same time: King of the Congo , which had been previously published in the zero (and only) magazine All dreams Plot and , two pages that had previously appeared in Madriz.
Just before this series published a few pages in the magnificent short-lived magazine Scrambled Media.
for SM in 1992 published 4 books with your own scripts: Moliere.
is also published a collection of different stories made for Madriz, the album is titled Raul Errata (Casset).
In this same year he also published a book containing over 300 illustrations made for the Country: Notebook Perplexed (Casset).
In this book there is an expanded French edition: no less than 500 illustrations of transactions between 1986 and 2002 for El País, La Razón and La Vanguardia.
For France has sometimes worked directly with children's illustrations (Basiers papier) or magazines (Le cheval sans tête) and also in the collective album "Algerie I douleur et le mal. "
Raúl has begun working in the newspaper El Pais in 1986, and opinion articles illustrating various orders for its publications and then moves to La Razón and La Vanguardia, where it continues with similar jobs, as well as cartoons and all kinds of artwork, diversifying their style in such So it seems that it's about 4 or 5 different artists.
In 1990, the country has been sent as a graphic correspondent with journalist Ignacio Carrión the USSR, where he made 22 drawings published in the newspaper. Felipe Hernández Cava had made his own trip to Russia a few months earlier as both were very impressed by what they saw, they decided to embark on the realization of a book, it is Windows to the West (Ed. Luca French 1994 and Ed Amok, 1995), where in addition to these drawings made several stories inspired by this environment, each drawn by Raul in a different style.
contrasts the new Soviet Union. Notes from reality. 
5 stories. 5 styles. Shortly after collaborating on the project of creating a new magazine: The Eye Clinic, where he was director FH Cava, and after, Raúl Castro, Federico del Barrio and Jesus Moreno editor, but the magazine closes a few numbers.
In 1998 he published the script of a play written by Raul : bad angle.
sees the light in 2005 a book containing a number of his cartoons: Relevance , Pataphysícas Editions de la Candelaria.
In 2008, the cultural center doors Castilla published book Raul , Office of Readings, along with another designer and illustrator Peret, that of Raul is a new compilation of his work in subsequent press Notebook those of Perplexed.
In the foreword to this book offers more of the keys to his work and his ideas on illustration in recent years has been counting on several conferences and workshops in several countries.
collaborates with illustrations and with a large group of illustrators and cartoonists in the books produced by RENFE, Drawing Transcantábrico. A wonderful adventure where this group of artists get on the train and during the trip on paper are shaping their impressions of what they're looking through the windows, inside cars or in the cities and towns where they alight.
Currently
Raul continues to work with the newspapers La Razón and La Vanguardia admires all the amount of wasted talent without being noticed the weariness of daily delivery and up time.
