Juan José Ryp

A self-taught artist, Ryp started his professional career with a small Spanish publisher, MMM (Megamultimedia),[4] first illustrating a fantasy comic for children and later being commissioned a few series for anthology magazine Wet Comix.

[3] His main works from this period are the erotic Lesbiación (Girls' Games), Monique y Denisse and Ignominia series and the pulpy Nancy in Hell and Bribones.

[1] He went on to provide art for the comic adaptation of Frank Miller's unused RoboCop 2 script, with writer Steven Grant, and had his first breakthrough drawing Warren Ellis' Black Summer and the second part of his Avatar superhero trilogy, No Hero.

At Avatar, Ryp also illustrated several film tie-ins for classic horror franchises A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th.

[2] In 2020 he joined the roster of newly-launched ex-Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso's publishing house AWA Studios, illustrating the second volume of the zombie action comic Year Zero with writer Benjamin Percy.