Juan Giménez

After taking an education in industrial design, Juan Gimenez settled in Barcelona, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. Back in Argentina, he made his first comics for publishers like Colomba and Record, but soon started working in advertising and animation. Next, he left South America for good and moved to the Spanish Costa Brava. There, often in collaboration with Carlos Trillo or Ricardo Barreiro, he began to work for Spanish magazines like Zona 84 and Comix International, but also for Italian publications such as Lacio Story and Skorpio.

In 1985, Juan Giménez started the series 'Leo Roa', published in France by Dargaud, and later by Les Humanoïdes Associés. Also for Dargaud, he made 'Le Quatrième Pouvoir', in 1988. In 1991, he made 'Les Yeux de l'Apocalypse' with Roberto Dal'Pra for the publishing house Bagheera. A year later, he teamed up with scriptwriter Alexandro Jodorowsky to start 'La Caste des Méta-Barons' at Les Humanoïdes, a series starring a secondary character from the 'John Difool' series drawn by Moebius. Besides his comics work, Juan Giménez makes illustrations, covers for novels, storyboards for movies and concepts for computer games.