Cris Ortega (born 1980) is a Spanish painter, writer, and comics artist.[1] Her style is a mixture of realism and manga, a somewhat dark semi-realism. Forgotten, one of her principal works, combines gothic and romantic elements, as well as a mixture of horror and fantasy.
Biography
Cris Ortega became interested in art and literature in childhood, specifically in the horror genre. In 1999 she created her first comic from a story she had written several years before.[2]
She entered the higher technical degree program in illustration at the Art School of Valladolid. While attending, she began to publish in local and foreign magazines.[2] At that time she also worked as a drawing teacher and presented her works at various exhibitions and art galleries. At the end of her studies, Ortega worked for the first time as an art director for an advertising agency named Sm2, while continuing with illustration. She devoted all her free time to creating book covers and publishing the comic book anthology Shade. During those years she worked in graphic design, advertising, figurine design, role-playing games, video games, and comics. Always anchored in the world of fantasy and terror, she was also clearly influenced by manga. The influence of anime can also be seen in her illustrations.
In 2005, she began working as an illustrator for Norma Editorial, remaining with them for a year and a half. She then published her first series of collections of images associated with stories, including Forgotten. In 2007, the first volume of Forgotten was published in Spain. It would subsequently be translated into several languages, such as French, English, Italian, and German. Forgotten consists of four stories that combine Gothic and romantic elements.
Works
Books
Forgotten 1: El Reino sin nombre, Norma, 2007; containing: "El alma de la araña", "Rosa salvaje", "La caja de música", and "El canto de Lorelei", ISBN9788498470857[2]
Forgotten 2: El portal de los destinos, Norma, 2008; containing: "Melodía espectral", "El grito de la Banshee", "Cartas en la oscuridad", and "La Rosa de los Vientos", ISBN9788498475241[2]
Forgotten 3: Las Colinas del Silencio, Norma, 2010; containing: "El Cortejo de las Ánimas", "Cuando llegue diciembre", "La alianza de coral", and "El manantial de la luna", ISBN9788467902020[2]
Chopper 1, (Martin Chapiro, Juan Ferreyra) Asylum Press, 2011
TBO 4 Japon, Dibbuks, 2011
D'artiste character design, Ballistic Publishing, 2011
Allia 6, 2011
Crónicas de sombras. Los elegidos, novel by Lucía González Lavado [es]; illustrations by Cris Ortega, 2012[4]
References
^ abcCuevas, Marcelino (16 June 2009). "Entre sangre y azúcar" [Between Blood and Sugar]. Diario de León (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
^ abFraile, Óscar (13 March 2016). "El Capitán Trueno y Jon Nieve vuelven a casa" [Captain Trueno and Jon Snow Return Home]. El Día de Valladolid (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
