Ricardo Villagrán

Drawing being his all-consuming interest since the age of four, it was considered only reasonable that after high school he attend Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires.

Villagran began taking freelance art assignments for various advertising companies, printers and comic publishers while still attending college.

In 1969, Villagran began doing comic art for Editorial Columba (Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Caracas, Asunción, Montevideo, Santiago) Codex Ediciones, Guisa (Spain), Eura (Rome), and Fleetway (London).

In 1974 Villagran opened his own art studio in Buenos Aires called Nippur Quatro, along with his two brothers Enrique and Carlos.

In 1982, Villagran traveled to the United States, to establish contacts in the comics publishing industry to obtain work for his studio.