Finding your voice
Clever art Spanish artist Fernando Dagnino Guerra reveals how his life experiences influenced his own graphic novel, Smart Girl
In Smart Girl, android Yuki becomes self-aware and discovers what it means to be alive. Fernando Dagnino Guerra says she’s influenced by his life.
In his time, comic artist Fernando Dagnino Guerra has pencilled Superman and Green Lantern, and contributed to DC’s New 52. He’s drawn the stalwarts of comic heroes. But that’s not ultimately who this artist is. A fractured upbringing drew him to where he is now – creating his own cyberpunk world, Smart Girl.
“I grew up in Madrid, Spain, in the late 1970s and 1980s in a booming period of cultural and artistic transgression after the long 40-year night of a gruesome fascist regime,” he tells us. “And I guess pop art, cyberpunk and comics were there, and I got caught in the explosion.”