Colección Miguelanxo Prado #17

The Colección Miguelanxo Prado series was published by Glénat in the early 2000s, designed to collect and showcase the diverse bibliography of the acclaimed Spanish illustrator and comic artist. Miguelanxo Prado, known for his distinctively painterly style and often melancholic, philosophical narratives, emerged as a leading figure in the European graphic novel scene during the 1980s. This series served as a comprehensive retrospective, gathering his short stories, experimental works, and longer graphic novels into a uniform format that emphasized the artistic merit of his sequential storytelling.

Issue number 17 features the work 'Trazo de tiza' (Chalk Lines), widely regarded as one of Prado's masterpieces. Originally serialized and published in the 1990s, the story follows a man who arrives at an isolated, dreamlike island where the boundaries of time and logic blur. Prado’s design choices in this work, characterized by atmospheric watercolors and complex panel layouts, were critically acclaimed for pushing the boundaries of the medium, cementing his reputation as an auteur who bridges the gap between traditional comic illustration and fine art.