Miguel Diaz Vizoso

Born on June 14, 1969, he is a Spanish-Belgian comic book artist and writer[1]. He worked as an educator at a special education center for ten years before turning to the world of comics. He gained recognition in the early 2000s by collaborating on the artwork for The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs), a Belgian comic book series created by Peyo in 1958.
Early life and artistic beginnings
Starting in 1989, he worked for ten years as an educator at a special education center in La Louvière, his hometown.
In 1996, he visited the Academy of Fine Arts in Châtelet, Belgium—where Vittorio Leonardo taught comics—with the intention of enrolling. Leonardo took an interest in his drawings and suggested he take a break from his career as an educator to assist him at his studio with various projects, including drawing Rantanplan (1997).
Miguel Diaz Vizoso assisted him for a year before returning to his work as an educator. A few months later, Vittorio Leonardo called him back to suggest he take his drawings to the Peyo Studio.
The Peyo Studio’s comics team supplied the German magazine Schtroumpf! with games, posters, gags, stories, and comics on a monthly basis.
However, the studio lacked an available artist to create new drawings for potential licensees.
In 1999, the Peyo Studio offered Miguel Diaz an ongoing collaboration; he drew upon his experience as an educator to enrich the Smurfs album collection. This influence led to the script for Un enfant chez les Schtroumpfs (A Child Among the Smurfs), in which the blue sprites find themselves dealing with a difficult child.
In 2007, alongside his work for Studio Peyo, he teamed up with Ludo Borecki to propose a continuation of the Robin Dubois adventures to publisher Le Lombard, with the backing of the series’ creators, Bob de Groot and Turk.
In 2024, he illustrated his eifht Smurfs album: *Les Schtroumpfs et la cape magique*