Sergio Bleda Villada

Sergio Bleda Villada (born 27 July 1974) is a Spanish comics artist, known mainly for his horror comics, such as El baile del vampiro (Vampire Dance) although he has also cultivated other genres and worked in illustration, especially erotica, advertising and production design for cinema. His works have been published in several European countries and the United States.

Biography

Career Bleda was born in Albacete. Basically self-taught, he left high school in the second year of secondary school to dedicate himself fully to comics. He began his career by publishing a newspaper strip entitled Los saurios in the local weekly Crónica between 1991 and 1995, as well as several comic strips in fanzines.

In the mid-90s, he moved to Barcelona, where he shared an apartment with Javier Pulido and began to collaborate in the erotic magazine Kiss Comix, to which he would contribute series such as La novia y la ladrona (1994), Melrose Pleasure (1996) and Hot Rockets (1988) (the last two with Rakel's script), as well as publishing the graphic novel El Hijo de Kim (1994–95) and several pin-ups of Marvel superheroes for Planeta DeAgostini. His leap to popularity would come, however, with the limited series El Baile del Vampiro, published in 1997 by Planeta within its Laberinto line and that would earn him a nomination for the Prize for Promising New Author at the Barcelona Comic Fair in 1998, which was republished in 2008 by Aleta.

Established since 1999 in Valencia, he published the one-shot Inés 1994 for Planeta and continued producing erotic comics for MegaMultimedia, Sulaco Ediciones and Dolmen magazines, at the same time he made the storyboards for the films Son de mar by Bigas Luna (2001) and No somos nadie by Jordi Mollà (2002).

He is also curator of the collective exhibition "Tebeospain" organized by the Biblioteca Valenciana and the Asociación de Autores de Cómic de España, and produces for the first time his first albums conceived as such: Duérmete niña (Sleep, Little Girl) that same year, which would finally consist of two albums. He also illustrated the children's book 33 abuelas by Luis Cauqui.

In 2018 he illustrated Il faudra me passer sur le corps, with the writer Katia Even.

Works