Collection: Salvador Larroca Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

Salvador Larroca was born in Valencia, Spain is a Spanish Comic Book Artist who began his career drawing pin ups and short stories for the Spanish publisher of Marvel Comics, Planeta de Agostini. Soon he was hired at Marvel UK, where he drew Death´s Head and Dark Angel. Just before the demise of the British publishing house, Salvador began his American career with The Incredible Hulk Annual 21. Salvador Larroca did six issues of The Flash on his first year working on American comic books but Marvel showed bigger interest on his work and offered him the Ghost Rider regular series with Howard Mackie. Being capable of drawing more than a monthly issue, he stayed on the title for three years before drawing Heroes Return, a four issue miniseries that made Salvador Larocca a fan favorite.

Salvador Larroca, following a short stint on Excalibur, joined comics legend Chris Claremont on Fantastic Four, where they created Valeria, the second child of the Richards family. Three years on Marvel´s First Family that gave him the opportunity to make true a childhood dream, being the artist of The Uncanny X-Men. In 2001 writer Chris Claremont proposed Salvador creating a new X Men title, Extreme X Men, where he stayed on the title for twenty-four issues. On this title Larroca asked Marvel to reproduce his pencils without inking them, opening a new age on comic book state of art. Meanwhile, being capable of drawing more than a comic book each month, Larroca worked on various mini-series projects, including Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra and Ultimate Elektra. After a short run on Bill Jemas´ Namor, Larroca went back to the X-Men but this time he did not enjoy his work as much as the previous time.

Salvador Larocca, trying to reinvent himself and regain part of his lost passion on drawing, changed his art style embracing photo realism on New Universal, a remake of Marvel’s New Universe. With renewed energy and illusion, Salvador drew Uncanny X Men, Amazing Spiderman and the Sensational Spiderman Annual (2007) that was nominated to the Eisner Awards as the Best Single Issue of the year. In 2008, Marvel launched a second title starring Iron Man just in time to capitalize the renewed interest on the character coinciding with the Iron Man feature film. The Invincible Iron Man series reunited the Eisner nominated creative team of Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca and offered reader friendly stories solidly setted in the Marvel Universe. The title won the Best New Series Eisner Award in 2009, earning critical success and a great fan base. During 67 issues Fraction and Larroca built an amazing story that established Tony Stark as one of the key characters of the Marvel Universe.

Salvador Larroca was recently announced as the artist of the revamped Cable and The X Force, a new title part of the Marvel Now campaign. On his long awaited return to mutant family, fan favorite Salvador Larroca and young gun Dennis Hopeless will give readers an action packed, hi-tech superhero title. From 2008 to 2012, with the successful launch of the Iron Man film, Larocca was given the opportunity to team with writer Matt Fraction and do the Eisner Award winning art and cover work for a new Iron Man on-going series titled The Invincible Iron Man. His artwork is currently credited in 840 separate issues.