Garrón, Javier
Biography
Born in El Puerto de Santa María, in the south of Spain, Javier Garrón studied architecture until he decided to fully commit to his lifelong dream of making comics. After nearly a decade of trying to become a professional artist, his work finally caught the attention from American publishers.
His breakthrough came in 2014 from DC Comics, working on such titles as "Batgirl", "Harley Quinn", "Nightwing" or "Batman Eternal".
After that he began working as an exclusive artist for Marvel Comics where has developed most of his career on titles such as "Cyclops", "Secret Wars: Inferno", "Star-Lord", "Secret Warriors", "Ant-Man & The Wasp" or "Amazing Spider-man". And editorial events such as "Black Vortex", "Death of X" and "Inhumans vs X-Men".
He helped launch the critically acclaimed "Miles Morales: Spider-Man" run with Eisner Award winning writer Saladin Ahmed, and worked on the legendary title “Avengers” for 3 years, a rare feat for any artist, alongside one of the most celebrated living writers today in comics, Eisner and Harvey award winner Jason Aaron.
Was named one of Marvel's Young Guns 2018-2019, a title conceded to the most up and coming promising new comic-book artist superstars. He has also worked for Sony in the design team of the "Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales" Playstation videogame, has drawn illustrations for Epic Game’s Fortnite, his work featured in the Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” movie and starred in his own episode of the Disney+ documentary series “Marvel 616”.
He lives in Barcelona where steadily and tirelessly keeps drawing the world’s greatest heroes.
Pulled from personal website. https://www.javiergarronart.com/bio. Retrieved 2024 November 11.
Languages Used
- Language: English. Script: Latin
- Language: Spanish; Castilian. Script: Latin