Alfonso Font (born 28 August 1946; Barcelona, Spain)
Alfonso Font is a Spanish comic book creator and cartoonist.

Alfonso Font was born in Barcelona, Spain. He began his comics career in the early 1960s as an apprentice in the local Editorial Bruguera studio, working mostly at western, war, mystery and horror series, especially for foreign publishers. In the 1970s he worked for the British publisher Fleetway on several comics, in particular war series such as Black Max (commissioned through the Bardon Art agency); later he would also work for American publishers Warren Publishing and Skywald.

In the 1970s he moved to Paris, where he collaborated with the magazine Pif gadget where, among others, he created the science fiction series Les Robinsons de la terre (The Robinsons of Earth). In 1972 he illustrated the series Geminis, written by Carlos Echevarría, dealing with espionage adventures set in World War I, before moving on to work for the French publishing house Editions du Vaillant on comic strips for Pif magazine scripted by Patrick Cothias including “Sandberg, Pere et Fils”, a strip sadly dropped from the title as it was considered too adult for its target teen audience.

After working on “Tequila Bang” written by Victor Mora for the weekly Spanish news magazine La Calle, Font began writing more of his own scripts, creating several series and characters that have given him international recognition, including Historias negras (Dark Stories), a collection of eighteen short, dark humorous adventures, and the science fiction Cuentos de un futuro imperfecto (Tales of an Imperfect Future).

This was followed in 1982 by the similar, though more hilarious El prisionero de las estrellas (The Prisoner of the Stars), an ecological-themed series, and Clarke y Kubrick, Espacialistas Ltd (Clarke & Kubrick: Spatialists Inc.). Though the two main protagonists' names are those of the creators of 2001: A Space Odyssey, author Arthur C. Clarke and film director Stanley Kubrick, this series is mostly inspired by Robert Sheckley's short stories. In 1982 he also released an erotic-comic series entitled Carmen Bond.

As well as a number of short stories such as “El As Negro” (The Black Ace), Font also created the comic strips “En busca del Cimoc perdido” (Searching for the lost Cimoc) and “Federico Mendelssohn Bartholdy contra el doctor Fut Maun Chut” (Federico Mendelssohn Bartholdy vs. Dr. Fut Maun Chut) He also drew the graphic album Barcelona al Alba (Barcelona at Dawn), created in collaboration with scriptwriter Juan Antonio De Blas, based on real events that took place in Barcelona in 1925.

In 1985 Font created Jon Rohner (initially as Jann Polynesia), a comic book series about a seaman's wanderings inspired by tales from authors such as Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson. The series won the Haxtur Award in 1990 as "Best Short Comics" in the Salón Internacional del Cómic del Principado de Asturias at Gijón.

In 1987 he created Taxi, about a young female taxi-driver who lives a series of spy adventures. The Italian magazine L'Eternauta, in 1988, published his series Alice e gli Argonauti (Alice and the Argonauts), a science fictional adventure of a young girl searching for her father, imprisoned by a dictatorial government. Also in Italy, he published a series of self-contained stories entitled Private Eye, about a private detective, and Bri D'Alban, about the clash between the Catholic church and the Cathar heretics during the early 13th century.

In 1993 Font received the Grand Prize at the Barcelona International Comic Fair, in Barcelona, Spain, for his whole career.

In 1996 he received the Yellow Kid Award at the Lucca Comics & Games event, in Lucca, Italy.

In 1998 Font started drawing Tex Willer for Sergio Bonelli Editore, written by Mauro Boselli. Four years later he became a regular member of the staff working at Tex ongoing series; in 2012 he also worked at a short story of Dylan Dog.

In 1999, with writer Ewald Fehlau, he adapted Jason Dark's Ghost Hunter for German Publisher Bastei Verlag. In 2004 he was one of the artists called for the revamping of Pif Gadget, appearing with the pirate comic Les Aventures de Trelawney, written by Richard Marazano. In 2010 he provided art for the medieval historic series Heloise de Montfort, also with script by Marazano.

Starting in 2003, many of his classic stories were reprinted in Spain, in books such as Historias negras (Dark Stories) (2003), El as negro (The Black Ace) (2004), Barcelona al alba (Barcelona at Dawn) (2004), Federico Mendelssohn Bartholdy (2007), Jon Rohner, marino (Jon Rohner, sailor) (2008), Historias negras (Dark Stories) (2017), Taxi (2018), La flor del nuevo mundo (The Flower of the New World) (originally published as The Epos of Chile) (2018.)

He is still active, and his most recent album, Aloma: The Treasure of the Temerario was published in Germany in 2018.

Represented today worldwide by SAF (Strip Art Features), recent work includes the children’s story “Shelter for Lost Dreams.” and a new thriller/adventure series for SAF, which is again based in his beloved Barcelona.

Alfonso Font is a multi award-winning artist (awards that include the highly coveted “Yellow Kid”), and much admired by other comic creators.

Font's mastery of anatomy is self-evident, notes fellow Spanish artist Sergio Bleda. “I challenge you to show me an artist that can draw hands in such a natural and expressive manner as he does – it is his use of perspective, scene layout, narrative, volume, lightning, and textures.