Miguel Riveros
Miguel Edgardo Riveros Silva (born November 22, 1976 in Santiago de Chile ) is an illustrator and blogger .
Career
In 1981 Riveros emigrated to Germany with his mother . His father, the small artist Hugo Riveros Gomez, was kidnapped and murdered by Augusto Pinochet's secret service shortly after he had received political asylum from the German government in Chile , which was then autocratically ruled .
Riveros completed an apprenticeship as an animation designer at the private Hamburg School for Animation with Harald Siepermann and Alexander Mitta . In 1994 and 1998 he illustrated two books with stories for Josef Mahlmeister . He made his first attempts as a comic book author in the fanzine Cosmix and the magazine Unicum . From 2006 to 2009, together with Alexander Fechner , he edited the magazine Unheimlich , which was later continued by Axel Mende. Up to and including 2010, Riveros also contributed some contributions to the anthologies Jazam and Panik Elektro . In 2013 he was seen in the program Kawaii of the German online offshoot of the television channel Animax . In the same year, after the entire original editorial team had left the company, he briefly became the moderator of the J-Mag program on the MyVideo Internet portal , but gave up again in 2014.
Well-known clients in the commercial sector for Riveros have been Moses Pelham and Sabrina Setlur as well as companies such as Wacom , Spickmich and Juuuport . He has been running a media blog full-time since 2001 .
He lives and works with his wife, the manga artist Mateja "Niloo" Riveros, née Pogacnik, in Cologne .
Publications
- Publishing a comic yourself: the comic book maker. Xinxii, Berlin 2016, without ISBN.
- Yang: The Warrior's Book. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-7843-7 .
- Dark child: Lilianne. Edition 52, Wuppertal 2005, without ISBN.
- The Truth. Comicline, Luxembourg 2004, without ISBN.
- Dark child. Edition 52, Wuppertal 1998, ISBN 3-935229-10-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Miguel Riveros in the catalog of the German National Library
- TV report about Miguel Riveros broadcast on Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- Miguel Riveros' official blog
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Riveros, Miguel |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Millus, navigator |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean comic artist and illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |