Joan Boix

Born in Badalona in 1945, Joan Boix had his first comic published in Bruguera's magazine Sissi in 1962. At this early stage he also worked for publishers Toray and Galaor. He was an artist for Boixcar's creation 'Hazañas Bélicas' at Toray and he wrote and drew 'La Tierra del Futuro' for Galaor. In addition he worked for the international agencies Bardon Art and Creaciones Editoriales. He contributed romance stories to British publications by means of agencies for some ten years.

Joan Boix took a step forward in his career by the mid-1970s, when he produced and owned the copyright of a number of horror and suspense stories that he first published in Dossier Negro. Another personal creation of this period was 'Robny el Vagabundo'.

In the 1980s Boix's short stories appeared frequently in the magazines published by Josep Toutain, especially in Creepy. For this horror magazine, he wrote and drew original stories and literary adaptations, as well as drawing 'Brumas', a series written by E. S. Abulí. Boix was also present in Rambla and Metropol.

In the 1990s Swedish publisher SEMIC Press selected Joan Boix as a member of the so called Team Fantomen. As a result Joan Boix, who had previously drawn the series 'Kerry Drake and Lefty Drake' for the publisher, became an illustrator for the Swedish production of 'Phantom' stories. Among the Lee Falk successors that collaborated with Boix were Ben Raab, Tony de Paul and David Bishop but most of the scripts were provided by Claes Reimerthi. Joan Boix found the time to alternate his rendering of 'The Phantom' with 'Jonathan Struppy', a personal project that he had begun in the early 1980s. He took it up again for SEMIC Press to publish it, then he self-published the work in Spain.