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Emma Ríos Maneiro (born January 1, 1976, Vilagarcía de Arousa) is a Spanish comics artist, writer, and editor with an international presence in the comics industry. Currently, she is working on several ongoing titles: Mirror with Malaysian artist Hwei Lim and Pretty Deadly with American writer Kelly Sue Deconnick. The latter of which earned Ríos an Eisner award nomination for "Best Penciller/Inker/Artist", her second. She is also a rapier fencer specializing in La Verdadera Destreza.

Education
Ríos began drawing as a child and is a self-taught artist. As a young adult, Ríos attended University of A Coruña for architecture and afterwards worked as an architect for a few years while publishing comics on the side in fanzine. In 2008, she refocused her career on comics.

Career
In the same year Ríos resigned from architecture, she participated in Lingua Comica, a transnational comics workshop program funded by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). Ríos has related in interviews that she did not feel like a real comics artist until she was selected for the program alongside Hwei Lim, whom she currently co-creates Mirror with. Shortly afterwards, she began to work for several of the largest comics publishers.

Small Press and Fanzines
Prior to resigning from architecture, Ríos began her career in comics by self-publishing zines in her teenage years. Over time, Ríos was a regular contributor to the Galicia, Spain based small press and fanzine Polaquia. Here, Ríos published multiple original works including APB (A Proof of Bullets) and other comics.

Boom! Studios
Ríos debuted in American comics in 2008 with Hexed, a fantasy/horror title under Boom! Studios she illustrated for Michael Nelson.

Marvel
Ríos first joined Marvel comics as an illustrator for Doctor Strange written by Mark Waid. Ríos accredits Waid for pushing her to pursue a career in Marvel comics, where she has worked on many titles including The Amazing Spider-man, Runaways, Girl Comics, and Osborn, a mini-series about the Spider-man villain Norman Osborn. Ríos partnered with Kelly Sue Deconnick for Osborn, whom she worked on several other projects with across multiple publishers.

Image
At Image, Ríos and Deconnick joined forces for Pretty Deadly, an award winning and ongoing western/fantasy series. Deconnick and Lesser known, Ríos collaborated previously at Image for “Railbirds”, a graphic reflection and tribute written by Deconnick for her friend, the late slam-poet Maggie Estep a year after her death. This appeared in Island magazine, an ambitious monthly comics anthology published from 2015 to 2017, which Ríos co-edited and contributed to with Brandan-Graham. Although the magazine ended, Ríos has gone on record to say it was an unforgettable experience that she was proud to be a part of.

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