Creating Comic Books with author & illustrator JOSE FRAGOSO

Children’s comic books and picture books are different: comics are longer and based on the characters, picture books are based on the story. They also have things in common, and one of them is that the evolution from creating picture books to comics is a very natural process for an author or an illustrator, who “grows up” with their readers. The comic book is the connection between picture books and narrative books. 

Based on the comic book series OLIVIA WOLF, published in Europe and US by NubeOcho, we will learn the whole process of making a comic book series: from creating the main and secondary characters, a logo, writing the outline and the script, developing the story (80 page books), sketching, discussions with the publisher, how to keep the series interesting… We will learn everything about these books that children love and about a market that is growing really fast! 

José Fragoso is an acclaimed children’s books author and illustrator. After ten years in NYC and Chicago, he is established in his hometown of Madrid.. He teaches Illustration at the professional illustration school ESDIP in Madrid. He has also taught illustration at Instituto Cervantes New York and Chicago or United Nations International School, among others. 

He has published more than fifty children´s, middle grade and comic books as an illustrator or author in Spain, US, UK, Italy, Japan, Taiwan or India. He also has three comic book series now in bookstores in Spain, France and USA. He lives in Madrid with his wife, his two daughters and two dogs, Elvis & Priscilla. 

He is represented in Spain by Tormenta Books Literature & Illustration Agency. Clients: Penguin Random House, Alfaguara, Scholastic, Anaya, NubeOcho, Bruño, SM, Loqueleo, Narval, Bookolia, Canica Books, Fun Readers, Grupo Comunicación Loyola, Ocho en Punto Editorial, Green Seeds Publishing, La Esfera Azul, among others.