Paco Sordo has been awarded this Tuesday with the National Comic Prize for his work The Pact (New Nueve publishing house), at the proposal of the jury.
The award, granted by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, is endowed with 20,000 euros and aims to distinguish the best work of this specialty published in any of the official languages ??of the State during the year 2021.
The jury has highlighted his work, the first solo, “for the exercise of genealogy of the medium, which goes back to the Bruguera era and for projecting that legacy towards the present and the future.
In addition, he adds that his original script is fast-paced, which is why it is “an authentic tribute to Spanish comics” and highlights that “there are few more unique works that vindicate the strange times that we live in than this artifact, apparently humorous and deep down of deep existential significance”.
Born in Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), Sordo is a cartoonist, graphic designer, animator and illustrator. He has worked for Nickelodeon, Ogilvy, Rovio, ING Direct, Vodafone or Movistar as an animator and designer.
He is especially known for his Internet series, published between 2010 and 2014 in the magazine El Jueves and his collaborations for the digital magazine Pride and Satisfaction with the series Tebeos Basura.
