Bartolomé Seguí (Palma, 1962)
Comic book artist and illustrator.
He began his professional career in the 80s, collaborating in magazines such as El Víbora, Cairo, El Jueves or Madriz. His first works date from that period: A salto de mata (1989), Cohibas Connection (2001, with a script by Carles Santamaría) and ¿Coca o ensaimada? (2003), as well as El sueño de México (2004, with the scriptwriter Ramón de España).
His consecration would come with Las serpientes ciegas (2008), with a script by Felipe Hernández Cava, a work that earned him the National Comic Award 2009, the Award for Best Work and Best Script at the Barcelona International Comic Fair, and the Critics’ Award for the best national work; With the same scriptwriter he would repeat in Hágase el caos (2011, 2012) and Las oscuras manos del olvido (2014).
With a script by Gabi Beltrán, he drew two graphic novels based on the latter’s youth memories: Historias del barrio (2011, Ciutat de Palma Comic Award) and its sequel, Historias del Barrio. Caminos (2014).
In 2017, together with Hernán Migoya, he took on the comic adaptation of the iconic detective Pepe Carvalho created by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán in the works: Tatuaje (2017), La soledad del manager (2019), and Los mares del sur (2021).
His latest works are Boomers (2023) and Malaherba (2023), the adaptation of the successful novel by Manuel Jabois.
His work has been published in countries such as Germany (Avant Verlag), France (Dargaud, Gallimard BD, La Bôite à Bulles), Italy (Tunué), Portugal (Levoir) and Sweden (Galago).
In addition to his work as a comic book author, he has illustrated numerous children’s books, has been co-editor of the children’s magazine Esquitx, and since 2004 he has continued to draw the daily strip Vuits i Nous (along with the scriptwriter Ferran Aguiló) for the Balearic newspaper Última Hora.
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