SOLE OTERO (1985, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA) IS A COMIC ARTIST, CHILDREN ILLUSTRATOR AND TEXTILE DESIGNER.
Sole got her degree in textile design at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating in 2010. Since then she has taught embroidery, knitting and needle felting.
Her work as an illustrator for children has led to her being published internationally.
As a comic artist she made several web comics, and in 2015 published her first book "La pelusa de los días" in Spain.
She was part of the Latin American collective Historietas Reales and of the international collective Chicks on Comics.
In the past she has taught illustration, digital illustration, comic and comic strip. She currently runs an online course on colour through Domestika.
In 2019, she won the Fnac-Salamandra prize for her graphic novel project "Naftalina", which was published in 2020 through Random House.
Ever active, Sole is working concurrently on many projects; ranging from graphic novels, online courses, comics for children and illustrations for books.
PUBLISHED
COMICS:
- Naftalina (Random House Salamandra Graphic, Spain, 2020)
- Pangea (Szama ediciones + Pelusa Ediciones, Argentine, 2020)
- Intensa (Astiberri, Spain, 2019. Hotel de las Ideas, Argentine, 2019)
- Siempre la misma historia (Dícese Ediciones, Argentine, 2018)
- Poncho Fue (La Cúpula, Spain, 2017 Hotel de las Ideas, Argentine, 2017)
- La de las botas rojas (Szama Ediciones, Argentine, 2016)
- La pelusa de los días (La Cúpula, Spain, 2015)
Anthologies:
-Pibas (Hotel de las Ideas + In bocca al lupo, Argentine, 2019)
-Orsai Revista #5 (Orsai, Argentine, 2019)
-Destrucción (Clan de Fomento, Argentine, 2018)
-Distinta (Penguin Random House, Argentine, 2016)
WEB
COMICS:
- Siempre la misma historia (2015-2016)
- La pelusa de los días (2012-2015)
- La verdad de la milanesa (2010-2011)
- Sólo le pasa a Sole (2006-2012)
- Agustina Apple se transporta (2009)
- Salita Roja (2006-2011)
CHILDREN
BOOKS
- Demasiado para nada, text by María Ines Falconi (Quipu, Argentine, 2008)
- El libro de los gnomos, los gigantes y los duendes (Letra Impresa, Argentine, 2008)
- Rain rain go away (EECI, USA and Korea, 2009)
- Los buenos hábitos -6 books- text by Laura Ribulgo (Riderchail, Argentine, 2009)
- Papá Noel en apuros, text byFlorencia de Dann (Florencia de Dann, Argentine, 2009)
- Flopi y los seres fabulosos -4 books- texts by Fabián Sevilla (Albatros, Argentine, 2010-2011)
- Quinn & Penny (Picture Window Books, USA, 2010)
- Little Red Riding Hood (Oxford University Press, UK, 2011)
- Who is the winner? (EECI, USA, 2012)
- Ni se te ocurra, texts by Lisa Porcelli Piuzzi (Quipu, Argentine, 2012)
- Cartas amarillas, text by Mercedes Perez Sabbi (Quipu, Argentine, 2012)
- La chica astronauta y las ganas de volver, texts by Cristina Macjus (Edelvives, Argentine, 2013)
- Fun from home (Oxford University Press, UK, 2014)
- Los tres cerditos (Micuento.com, Worldwide, 2015)
- Te quiero mucho papá (Micuento.com,Worldwide, 2016)
- Te quiero mucho mamá (Micuento.com,Worldwide, 2016)
- Te quiero mucho (Micuento.com, España,Worldwide, 2016)