Alfonso Zapico, born in Blimea in Asturias, Spain, is a storyteller and freelance illustrator who has published several graphic works, including the novel Café Budapest, which won the Josep Toutain Prize at the 2010 Barcelona International Comic Fair. He spent months in Dublin and other of Joyce's home cities researching James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner, which won Spain's National Comic Prize in 2012. He lives in Angoulême, France.