Miguelanxo Prado, born in La Coruña, studied architecture, while he published his first work in the fanzine Xofre. In the 1980s, he contributed to magazines like Creepy ('Mar de Tinieblas'), Comix Internacional ('Fragmentos de la Enciclopedia Delfica'), Zona 84 ('Stratos'), El Jueves, Cairo and Cimoc. Book collections of his work were published in Spain by Norma Editorial, and by Casterman and Les Humanoïdes Associés in France. For Les Humanoïdes, he made such books as 'Chienne de Vie' (1988), 'C'est du Sport' (1989) and 'Y'a Plus de Justice' (1991). He also produced erotic stories, which appeared in L'Echo des Savannes.