Miguelanxo Prado, born in La Coruña, studied architecture, while he published his first work in the fanzine Xofre. In the 1980s, he contributed to magazines like Creepy ('Mar de Tinieblas'), Comix Internacional ('Fragmentos de la Enciclopedia Delfica'), Zona 84 ('Stratos'), El Jueves, Cairo and Cimoc. Book collections of his work were published in Spain by Norma Editorial, and by Casterman and Les Humanoïdes Associés in France. For Les Humanoïdes, he made such books as 'Chienne de Vie' (1988), 'C'est du Sport' (1989) and 'Y'a Plus de Justice' (1991). He also produced erotic stories, which appeared in L'Echo des Savanes.
Trazo de Tiza
With Fernando Luna, he created the police parody 'Manuel Montano' in Cairo in 1987-88. His best-known book is 'Trazo de Tiza/Trait de craie ' (1992). This is a dream-like, experimental and beautifully colored "impossible" story about a man on an island, who can't distinguish dream and reality, or the present and the past. In 1993, Mosquito published a monography about Prado, whose stories invite one to intellectual "discours".
Ardalén
In 1995, following a trip through Portugal with writer Éric Sarner, he illustrated 'Une Lettre Trouvée à Lisbonne' in the collection Voyage sans Amarres of D.S. publishers. In the following year, he made an adaptation of 'Peter and the Wolf' and Laura Esquivel's novel 'La Ley del Armor'. He created 'Quotidiana Delirante' for Norma in 1997 and participated in the animated version of 'Men in Black' in 1998.
His short stories for Chienne de Vie and C'est Du Sport were collected in the series 'Chroniques Absurdes' in the collection Expresso by Dupuis in 2004 and 2005. In 2003, Prado worked with Neil Gaiman on 'The Sandman: Endless Nights - Dream: The Heart of a Star'. Prado's animated feature film, 'De Profundis', was released in 2007. In 2012 he published his award-winning graphic novel 'Ardalén'.
He was one of several artists to make drawings for the "safe sex" promotional book 'Les Aventures de Latex' (FortMedia, 1991)
Self-portrati of Prado with his cat, Boris