Manuel Benet Blanes

(b. 1946, Spain)


comic art by Manuel Benet Blanes
comic art by Manuel Benet Blanes

Manuel Benet Blanes was born in Valencia. During the 1960s and 1970s, he studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in San Carlos, the Escuela de Maestría Industrial and at theAcademia de Pintura Vicente Barreira. As a comic artist he has drawn for several foreign publishers, including Thomson (Scotland), Fleetway (England), Bastei (Germany), Anaya (Spain), Semic Press (Sweden) and Universo (Italy), as well as the British daily The Sun. Mainly a fine artist, he has been exposing his work in galeries since 1976.