Alberto Vázquez (artist)

Alberto Vázquez Rico is a Spanish (Galician) comic book artist and filmmaker born in A Coruña in 1980. He has received three Goya Awards for his animated films. His most famous work is Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, a feature-length animated movie based on his own graphic novel. He is also a drummer in the Mano de obra band.

Alberto Vázquez
BornAlberto Vázquez Rico
(1980-10-13)13 October 1980
A Coruña, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Area(s)Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Notable works
www.albertovazquez.net

Career

He studied on University of Vigo and University of Valencia. One of the co-founders of Polaqia comic-book creators group, he published his first album in 2002. His comic books include Freda (2003, with Kike Benlloch), Psiconautas (2006) and El evangelio de Judas (2007). His drawings were published in El País, he also illustrated works of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.

In 2011, together with Pedro Rivero, he adapted his own graphic novel, Psiconautas, in a form of a short animated film under the title Birdboy. It won a Goya Award and encouraged them to direct the 76-minute version, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, which premiered in 2016. In the next year, Vázquez received two more Goya Awards: one for the best animated feature film and one for a short (Decorado).

On June 16, 2020, a trailer was released for his next feature film, Unicorn Wars, which is an adult animated film about the gruesome war against teddy bears and unicorns, or as the teddy bears call them, devils.[1][2]

Filmography

Feature-length

Shorts
  • Birdboy (2011)
  • Sangre de unicornio (2013)
  • Decorado (2016)

Accolades

Goya Awards
YearCategoryFilmResult
2011Best Animated Short FilmBirdboyWinner
2014Best Animated Short FilmSangre de unicornioNominated
2016Best Animated FilmBirdboy: The Forgotten ChildrenWinner
2016Best Animated Short FilmDecoradoWinner

Other awards
  • 2011: Award for Best Animated Short Film, Festival de Cans, for Birdboy.
  • 2016: Best feature-length animation, Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, for Birdboy: The Forgotten Children.
  • 2017: Jury Prize for Best Animated Short Film, Festival de Cans, for Decorado.[3]
  • 2017: Best short film in International Competition, Short Waves Festival, for Decorado.

References
  1. De Wit, Alex (17 June 2020). "Teddy Bears Battle Unicorns In Alberto Vázquez's 'Unicorn Wars' (Exclusive Trailer Premiere)". Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvbaknpoclI
  3. "Palmarés 2017 do Festival de Cans". festivaldecans.gal. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
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