El Torres

El Torres

Juan Torres (Spain, 1972) is a comic book writer, who likes to scribble headshots when signing his award-winning books.

After several years working in the Spanish industry, In 2007 he released his first two miniseries in the United States. CVO: African Blood and Eclipse of the Undead, published at IDW. It was followed by his horror miniseries The Veil (2009), which was highly praised by critics and reviewers, followed by The Suicide Forest (2010), which received international awards and praises (Three 2012 Haxtur Awards!).

At Image Comics he released the horror miniseries Drums (2011) and also Nancy in Hell (2011) and its sequel Nancy in Hell on Earth (2012). He created his own independent company, Amigo Comics, where he released horror and fantasy series like The Westwood Witches (2013), Rogues! (2013-2015), Roman Ritual (2014), Ghost Wolf (2014) and Straitjacket (2016).

The 2015 graphic novel El Fantasma de Gaudí, received appraise from critics and readers, awarded for Best National Work of Saló de Barcelona and Best Writer at Expocomic-Madrid (2016). Also, he is known for being the writer of El Rubius' Virtual Hero (2015-2017), a comic series and TV show based on the popular youtuber. He also received the 2018 AACE Award, the Carlos Gimenez Award (Best writer), Jose Sanchis Award (best writer), and 2018 Salón de San Sebastián (Best book) for Straitjacket. He was also nominated for the 2018 Eisner and Harvey Awards.

His work is defined by the use of well-known tropes of popular culture, always with a twist.

His books are being published in USA, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.