José Luis Pescador

Jose Luis Pescador (Mexico City, 1979). Visual artist, comic book author, amateur archaeologist, and dad to Romina and Santiago. He has published his work with La Cúpula Ediciones (Spain); Fantagraphics and Decade Press (USA); Kiss Comics (France); Tank Magazine (United Kingdom); Raíces and Turner (Mexico), among other publishers. He has exhibited individually and collectively in museums and art spaces. In 2010, he directed the historical comic project Serie Bicentenario, involving writers and some of Mexico's best cartoonists. He has received a couple of grants from the Guanajuato State Institute of Culture for the comic project The Conquest of Mexico (1998) and the Obese Monumental painting series (2002). In 2008, the Cultural Institute of León supported with a grant the production of the comic These Ruins You See, an adaptation of the novel by Jorge Ibargüengoitia. He has received support from Fonca for El Marambo in Havana (2014) and Sensational Marambo Comix (2019)

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