Miguel Díaz Vizoso (Haine-Saint-Paul. Bélgica)

Miguel Díaz Vizoso, the son of Andalusian immigrants in Belgium, grew up reading comic strips like a lot of us. When he wasn’t reading, he picked up drawing tools to copy his favourite pages. Inevitably the moment came when he began to think up his own stories. However his father suggested he learnt a trade – the family had been forced to leave Andalusia and go to Belgium for financial reasons – and so Miguel became a teacher, and worked as such for ten years in a Medical training institute in La Louvière (Belgium). But he never forgot comics, his real vocation: after assisting Morris, the creator of Lucky Luke for a while in 2000 he joined Studio Peyo, where he threw himself into being a writer-artist-colourist on the series Robin des Bois (Robin Hood) and Les Schtroumpfs (The Smurfs) (Norma Editorial). They say that Miguel Díaz Vizoso is self-taught, although he has always been very clear about this point: his training came from, and still comes from, all he reads, the comics which continue to pile up in his library.

You can follow Miguel Díaz Vizoso through his blog http://migueldiazvizoso.blogspot.com.es.