Alberto Vázquez Rico is a Spanish ( Galician) comic book artist and filmmaker born in

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in 1980. He has received three

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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.

Career

He studied on

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and

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. 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

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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 ''Unicorn Wars'' is a 2022 Spanish-French animated splatter war film written and directed by Alberto Vázquez. The plot is set against the backdrop of a conflict between anthropomorphized teddy bears and unicorns, following two bear siblings dep ...

'', which is an

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film about the gruesome war against teddy bears and unicorns, or as the teddy bears call them, devils. A year after the trailer debuted, Vázquez and the crew of ''Unicorn Wars'' was at the

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in a Work In Progress panel in which it took place at the Salle Pierre Lamy. He explained the production process, part of the plot, and the festival shown clips.

Bibliography

As Author and Illustrator

* ''Psiconautas'' (2007) * ''El evangelio de Judas'' (2007) * ''Alter Ego'' (2008) * ''A Caza'' (2020)

Filmography

Feature-length

Shorts

Accolades

Goya Awards

Other awards

* 2011: Award for Best Animated Short Film,

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, 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,

, for ''Decorado''. * 2017: Best short film in International Competition,

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, for ''Decorado''.

References

External links

Personal website

Blog
on

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