'LEGO Legends of Chima #1: High Risk!' (May 2014).
Miguel Sánchez Babiano is a Spanish comic artist and character designer, affiliated with the Comicon agency in Barcelona. Since the 1990s, he has drawn comic stories with 'Scooby-Doo', LEGO franchises and Disney characters for several European publishers.
Early life and career
Miguel Sánchez Babiano - he refers to himself as Miguel S. Babiano - was born in 1967 in Barcelona. Growing up during the 1970s, he grew a fondness for comics through the magazines of Editorial Bruguera. During the 1980s, he discovered underground comic magazines like El Víbora, Makoki, El Cairo and Madriz, which shaped his more experimental approach to drawing and storytelling. In 1985, he participated in the first comics contest held in the town of Cornellà de LLobregat. He later studied arts at the Escola Municipal D'Art de Cornellà de Llobregat, while publishing his first comic stories in local fanzines like Comité Coágulo and Kamikaze.
Licensed projects
In 1993, Babiano began his professional career, working through Barcelonese art studios on licensed products for several European publishers. Much of his work has featured characters from Disney, Warner Bros, The Jim Henson Company and LEGO franchises, done for publishers like Egmont and Schibsted Forlagen in Scandinavia, as well as the German companies Egmont-Ehapa, Pabel-Moewig Verlag and Blue Ocean Entertainment.
Artwork for a Swedish 'Scooby-Doo' comic.
Through Studio Comicon, managed by Pepe Ferré and Christof Ruoss, Sánchez has worked on titles like Traum-Prinzessin for the German publisher Pabel Moewig Verlag (2008- ). Starting in the 2010s, for Blue Ocean Entertainment in Germany, he has been a pencil artist for many LEGO titles, including 'Lego, Nexo Knights' (2012-2017), 'Lego Legends of Chima' (2014- ), 'Lego Star Wars', 'Lego Ninjago' and 'Lego City', working with writer Yannick Grotholt and inker Marc Alberich Lluís. For the Swedish Schibsted Forlagen, Babiano has drawn covers and comic stories for their 'Scooby-Doo' magazine (2006-2009), based on the TV series originally created by Hanna-Barbera.
Duckies - 'Een Paard voor Sinterklaas' (Donald Duck Sinterklaas holiday special 2014).© Disney.
Babiano has also drawn Futurikon's 'Dragon Hunters' and Jim Henson's 'Sesame Street', while his illustrations have appeared in Disney activity books, as well as the Disney Princess title. Between 2008 and 2015, he worked through Studio Comicup on comic stories with 'Donald Duck' and 'Aladdin' for the Donald Duck weekly, published by Sanoma in the Netherlands.
Personal work
In addition to his licensed work, Miguel S. Babiano has been working on personal projects for the Spanish publisher Editorial Cadí-Everest, including the children's picture books 'I Ara, Què?' (2011) and 'Cançons de Festa Grossa' (2013). He also makes paintings inspired by circuses, tree souls, city buildings and jazz musicians.
'Cançons de Festa Grossa' (2013).