Enric Bug

Enric Bug, also Enric Bug Lapedra, pseudonym Bug Rogers (born 15 April 1957) is a Spanish comic book writer and industrial designer.

Career

Enric Bug Lapedra was born in Portbou on 15 April 1957. In 1979 he moved to Barcelona, where he worked for the publishing house Producciones Editoriales. Here he continued to design Underground comix for Star, a publication that later continued under the title Bésame Mucho. both magazines were considered alternative and avant-garde. Rampa, Rambla, Rock Espezial, Diari de Barcelona also printed his work. In reference to science fiction hero Buck Rogers, he adopted the pseudonym Bug Rogers, which he used to sign his works. His work often showed "luscious ladies in pop colours and psychedelic turbulences". As Bug Rogers, he formed part of a collective of artists comprising Carmelo Hernando, Pere Fortuny, Luis García, Elvira Navares, Pepe Cánovas, Mari Carmen Vilá and Never Mind which in 1980 created the comic series La Astronomía Pirata, published by Ikusager Ediciones. Picasso in Roses as well as a variety of placards for Chic in Roses from 1980 to 1987, one of the best known Spanish discothèques at the time. He also created table lamps for the club Charly in 1994 as well as other decorative items made of beech and pine wood, in a style inspired by Art Deco.

In the mid-1980s, and again in Art-deco-style, Enric Bug designed two sculptures titled Taus (male) and Alix (female), both of anthropomorphic, robot-like appearance with the absence of facial expression, each holding a fluorescent tube. and Alix in The Two Jakes (1990). Bug also designed the Collection Abstract for Febrer, consisting of six different mannequins in a similar futuristic style, as well as some furniture. In the 2010s he created coloured psychedelic pin-ups with pencil, ink and watercolour techniques, or Pangrama at Galeria Canaleta (Figueres, 1996). In June 2011, he exhibited a retrospective of his work at Espai d'Art del Celler Espelt in Vilajuïga. In another solo exhibition titled F.A.C.E.S, he presented portraits of celebrities at Galeria Aljub in Figueres in 2014.

The artist lives in Figueres.

Publications (selection) The Speed Kills. Star 41, 1978 (debut) Chewing gum. Star 46, 1979 How to Make Up. Star 44–48, 1979 Blues de la ciudad. Bésame Mucho 5, Producciones Editoriales S.A., November 1980 El Misterio del Cadillac negro. Bésame Mucho 6, Producciones Editoriales S.A., December 1980 Magazine cover and Nivel.B52. Bésame Mucho 10, Producciones Editoriales S.A., April 1981 Candy. Bésame Mucho 12, Producciones Editoriales S.A., June 1981 Rockabilly de verano. Bésame Mucho 13, Producciones Editoriales S.A., July 198 Rockabilly de verano. Bésame Mucho 14, Producciones Editoriales S.A., August 1981 Rockabilly de verano. Bésame Mucho 15, Producciones Editoriales S.A., September 1981 Misión destruir Alien. Bésame Mucho 16, Producciones Editoriales S.A., October 1981 Lucky el zurdo. Bésame Mucho 20, Producciones Editoriales S.A., Februar 1982 Magazine cover and Lucky el zurdo. La dama negra. Bésame Mucho 21, Producciones Editoriales S.A., March 1982 Lucky el zurdo. Bésame Mucho 22, Producciones Editoriales S.A., March 1982 Lucky el zurdo. Bésame Mucho 23, Producciones Editoriales S.A., April 1982 Lucky el zurdo. Bésame Mucho 24, Producciones Editoriales S.A., June 1982 Magazine cover and Lucky el Zurdo. Bésame Mucho 26, Producciones Editoriales S.A., August 1982

Literature Inés Padrosa Gorgot: Diccionari biogràfic de l’Alt Empordà. Diputació, Girona 2009, , p. 155. José Manuel Lechado, José Manuel Lechado García: La movida. Una crónica de los 80. EDAF, Madrid 2005, , p. 198.