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Emma is a cartoonist based in Spain. She shifted her focus to a mix of both architecture and work with small press publishers until working on comics full-time in 2007. Having collaborated with publishers like Marvel and DC, she was able to commit to working on her own creator-owned comics again since 2013, thanks to Image Comics, where she co-edited ISLAND and created I.D., MIRROR in two parts: THE MOUNTAIN and THE NEST with Malay cartoonist Hwei Lim, and where she currently co-creates the critically acclaimed PRETTY DEADLY with Kelly Sue DeConnick. The latter earned Ríos several Eisner Award nominations and a win for Best Cover Artist in 2020.
As illustrator she’s worked for clients such as SIE, PRADA or Wizards of the Coast. personal work
Anzuelo
Graphic novel (Image comics)
Date of release November 6th 2024
by Emma Ríos
Edits: David Brothers
Assists: Luis Yang A gorgeous and brutal story that revolts against the notion of violence as the only response to a life without hope.
The Sea, secretly more complex than anyone imagined, rises one day. The horizon folds as the Sea absorbs the world and transforms everything that's been pulled inside it. Three kids find themselves unmoored and lost, but brought together by the physical and mental changes wrought by the tides and a desire to avoid harming any living creature.
"Emma is a master of her craft, an absolute beast of an artist with the delicate touch of a poet."
— E.M. Carroll (Through the Woods)
I.D. Graphic novel (Image comics)
by Emma Ríos "Hating your body or your life doesn't mean you hate yourself"
A dystopian tale that analyzes the conflict between perception and identity through the struggle of three people who consider a "body transplant" as a solution to their lives.
“A poignant science fiction tale that follows the reader long after the book has been put away” —The Beat
Pretty Deadly
Three Volumes. Ongoing series (Image Comics)
Writes: Kelly Sue DeConnick
Draws: Emma Ríos
Colors (interiors): Jordie Bellaire
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse
made
of
smokeand her face bears the skull marks of her father.
Her tale of retribution is as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage."This weird western saga gleefully, dreamily fuses a Greek chorus, spaghetti westerns, American trickster tales and creepy Japanese shoujo (girls’) manga. At the core of it, however, is a masterpiece of mythopoeism that many literary fantasists struggle to emulate."
—N.K. Jemisin, NYT Book Review
Pretty Deadly Vault Edition
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of PRETTY DEADLY, Emma Ríos has opened her personal vault and is sharing the first five issues of PRETTY DEADLY in their original, detailed artboard scale.
art by Emma Ríos
art by Hwei Lim
Following a terrorist talking dog, an idealist mage, and a heroic lab rat on their quest for acceptance, Mirror is the story of the mage-scientists of The Synchronia and the sentient animals of Irzah colony
“Looking at Mirror as a sole accomplishment, we find nothing but potential for what the medium could look like if motivated by play over capitalistic concerns.”
—Vannotes, Shelfdust.
other comicsPlanet Ardbeg Take it with a grain of sand
Agency: TCO
Client:
Ardbeg
A short for the Planet Ardbeg anthology curated by Ron Wimberly.
Planet Ardbeg is a new brand platform centered around an anthology of sci-fi tales written and illustrated by three of the world’s leading comic artists: Ronald Wimberly, Emma Ríos, and Sanford Greene. The artists were commissioned to come up with an original idea inspired by one of Ardbeg’s three whiskies within the core range, and each artist brought their own bold and unique style of storytelling.
variant covers
Somna by Emma Ríos
Canary
Line art: Emma Ríos
Colors:
Miquel Muerto
Line art: Emma Ríos
Colors:
Miquel MuertoIce Cream Man
Line art: Emma Ríos
Colors:
Miquel Muerto
Arlinn, The Moon’s Fury
Arlinn, The Pack ‘s Hope
MTG
Innistrad Midnight Hunt Equinox variant
book covers
Bosque Mitago
Book cover for the Spanish edition
Ed. GigameshLavondyss
Book cover for the Spanish edition
Ed. GigameshCold Eye
Book cover for Saga Press
other illustration work
Comic Festivals:
Comic Barcelona 2024
SPX 2018
God of War Ragnarok
Collaboration with SIE
and
Santa Monica Studio
FriendSHIP Orca
Collaboration with GT Orca Atlántica and CEMMA for the conservation and management of a subpopulation of orcas endangered in the Iberian Peninsula.
cover art by Choo
Prada Spring Summer 2018 Womenswear
Comic Book Women collection
Collaboration with Brigid Elva, Joëlle Jones, Stellar Leuna, Giuliana Maldini, Natsume Ono, Emma Ríos, Trina Robbins y Fiona Staples. Featuring archive images from Tarpé Mills.
Scenography: Rem Koolhaas