David Lafuente

David Lafuente is a Spanish-born comic book artist known for his work on books such as Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man and Radiant Red: Crime & Punishment. He currently resides in London.

Career Lafuente first penciled such series as Phénix and Kabur (written by Jean-Marc Lofficier) for Hexagon Comics, then was discovered by Marvel Editor C.B. Cebulski at the Dublin City Comic Con during the editor's self-named talent search ChesterQuest", though the artist's official website displays professional work dated much earlier than this. His first work for Marvel was doing the layouts and coloring for Spider-Man Family #2, Published in 2007. His first major work, however, was providing the pencils/inks for Kathryn Immonen's 2008-2009 Hellcat mini-series. After collaborating with writer Brian Michael Bendis on an Ultimate Spider-Man Annual in 2008, he was picked as the regular artist for that series' 2009 relaunch, which debuted in August 2009. Doug Braithwaite, Ian Churchill, Olivier Coipel, Duncan Fegredo, Simon Furman, John McCrea, Sean Phillips and Liam Sharp, who all drew a panel each, with regular Superior artist Leinil Yu creating the book's front cover. The book was completed in 11 hours, 19 minutes, and 38 seconds, and was published through Icon on November 23, 2011, with all royalties being donated to Yorkhill Children's Foundation. Due to schedule issues, the art ended up being done by Jeff Stokely.

David Lafuente was exclusive to Valiant Comics in 2015 and 2016 and was the regular artist on A&A: The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong. In 2019 drew the Amazing Spider-Man Annual starring Spider-Ham, written by Jason Latour, later moved to DC Comics to work on Superman with frequent collaborator Brian Michael Bendis.

As of 2022, Lafuente works as video-game concept artist for Atmos.

YouTube David Lafuente has an active YouTube presence in his own channel and in the Streaming de Dibujantes channel with David Lopez (artist).