Paco Sordo
Paco Sordo | |
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Paco Sordo (left), with Ricardo Esteban, at the 40th Comic Barcelona, 2022 | |
| Born | Francisco Sordo Artaraz May 28, 1979 El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz, Spain |
| Occupations | Comics artist,animator, illustrator |
Francisco Sordo Artaraz (born 28 May 1979), known as Paco Sordo, is a Spanish comics artist, animator and illustrator.
Life and career
Sordo was born in El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz.[1]
After completing the secondary school he attended a higher education animation course at the Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid (ECAM). One of his first animation jobs was at Nikodemo, and he posteriorly worked at several European studios, in animated series and advertising campaigns.
In 2010 he started the series Internet: modo de empleo for the satirical magazine El Jueves. After several authors left that magazine in June 2014 for the withdrawal of a critical cover art about the proclamation of Felipe VI, Sordo was one of the cartoonists involved in the digital magazine Orgullo y satisfacción, and kept the section Tebeos basura until its closing in 2017.[2]
Sordo made many comics for children, having illustrated more than fifty titles for the American and Franco-Belgian markets. Since 2021 he publishes the series Niko for the publishing house Bayard's BDKids imprint, a work that since September 2023 is also published in the magazine Astrapi.[3]
In 2021 he launched the one-off comic El Pacto, published by Nuevo Nueve, in which he paid homage to the Spanish comics history and to the Bruguera School through the fictional life of Miguel Gorriaga, a wannabe cartoonist who plans the kidnapping of Manuel Vázquez.[4] [5]The following year El Pacto won the Best Comic by a Spanish Author award in the Salón de Barcelona.[6]Paco Sordo was awarded the Premio Nacional del Cómic in 2022, by Spain's Ministry of Culture, for having projected in that graphic novel "the legacy of Spanish comic towards the present and the future".[7]
References
- ^ Martínez, Marina (2022-10-12). "El portuense Paco Sordo, Premio Nacional del Cómic 2022 por 'El Pacto'". Andalucía Información (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-17.
- ^ Vilches, Gerardo (2022-10-11). "El dibujante Paco Sordo gana el Premio Nacional del Cómic por 'El pacto': "Quería acercar a Bruguera a un público nuevo"". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-17.
- ^ "Paco Sordo: El cómic es una forma muy divertida de leer y perder el miedo a la lectura". Conmishijos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-17.
- ^ Fornés, Nora G. (2022-10-11). "El historietista Paco Sordo, premio Nacional del Cómic por 'El pacto'". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-17.
- ^ Macías, Gerardo (2021-05-19). "La edad de oro de la historieta española". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-17.
- ^ Periódico, El (2022-05-06). "Daniel Torres, Gran Premio del Cómic Barcelona". El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-17.
- ^ "Paco Sordo, Premio Nacional del Cómic 2022". www.lamoncloa.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-17.