Victoria Francés

She spent part of her childhood in Galicia before returning to her hometown to earn her degree from the San Carlos School of Fine Arts, at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

In 2012, Ocean's Lament (El Lamento del Océano) was published, in which the author features a listless, spectral mermaid as the main protagonist.

At the end of 2014, Francés presented a new project named MandrakMoors in collaboration with the South Korean bjd doll company, FairyLand.

Francés and her style are inspired by the Gothic movement, and her work contains characters such as ghostly women wearing long dresses with vampirical attributes.

She is influenced by a number of writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, Goethe, Baudelaire, Bram Stoker, as well as illustrators such as Brian Froud, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac or Luis Royo and bands like Dark Sanctuary, whom she worked with in 2009.