Juanjo Guarnido (born 1967; Granada, Spain)
Juanjo Guarnido (born 1967) is a Spanish illustrator and the co-author of the comic book series Blacksad.

Juanjo Guarnido got his degree in fine arts in his birth city of Granada. Guarnido collaborated on several fanzines and produced work for Marvel Spanish publications (Comics Forum - Planeta de Agostini).

Unfortunately, the small size of the Spanish market forced him to turn to other means of earning a living. In 1990, he left Granada and moved to Madrid, where he worked on a TV series for three years. There he met Juan Díaz Canales, with whom he discussed producing comics. In 1993, Guarnido applied for a job with the Walt Disney Studios in Montreuil-sur-Bois so moved to Paris in 1993 and was employed as a lay-out man and animator on films like 'Hunchback of the Notre Dame' (1996), 'Hercules' (1997) and he was the lead animator for the character Sabor in the Disney film 'Tarzan' (1999).

After Guarnido left Disney, he reconnected with Canales. After contacting several editors, Guarnido and Canales finally signed on with French publisher Dargaud, and in November 2000, Quelque part entre les ombres (Somewhere within the Shadows) was published. It was a success among critics and the public, and won the Prix de la Découverte at the Sierre International Comics Festival and the "Avenir" Prize at the Lys-lez-Lannoy Festival, respectively in Switzerland and France. In March 2003, the second album Arctic-Nation was released. It was once again a success, winning the Prize Awarded by the Audience and the Prize for Artwork at the 2004 Angoulême International Comics Festival. The third instalment of the Blacksad series, Âme Rouge (Red Soul), was published in 2005. In 2006 it was awarded the Angoulême Prize for a Series.

In his spare time, he started making comics together with Canales. This eventually resulted in the launch of their critically acclaimed anthropomorphic black cat detective 'Blacksad', of which the first book was published by Dargaud in 2000. Guarnido's film noir-inspired comic is inhabited by a great many remarkable and unusual animal characters, including anthropomorphic cameos of famous persons and a wide range of reptile villains. The series is published in French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, and Turkish.

Guarnido was also the cover artist and illustrator for the final installment of Pierre Boisserie's collective science fiction series 'Voyageur', that was published by Glénat between 2007 and 2011. With Canales' wife Teresa Valero he additionally set up the heroic fantasy children's series 'Sorcellières', that is published by Dargaud since 2008.