Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester. An illustrator, cartoonist and painter born in Tangier in 1950, Rodrigo (as he signs himself) is best known for the biographical homoerotic comic serial ‘Manuel’, first published in the Madrid-based monthly arts magazine Luna in 1983-84 and reprinted, with other works, in book form as Manuel No Está Solo (Ediciones Sinsentido, 2005). The work originated from a Rodrigo’s real experience and it told about a homosexual love story which wasn’t reciprocal. – Rodrigo Munoz Ballester