Carles Prunés Álvarez (Barcelona, 1937–2017) was a comic book artist, illustrator, and painter. He was one of the first Spanish authors to publish directly for the United States through the horror comics publisher Warren.
Prunés drew romantic, crime, and war comics, especially for the British and also the German markets during the 1960s, many of them through the agency Selecciones Ilustradas. Some of these comics were later published in Spain as well.
In Spain, Prunés illustrated an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey for Ediciones Toray as part of the Novelas Gráficas Clásicas collection (The Odyssey, 1966), and for Ediciones Galaor, he drew five issues of the historical series El Cid (1968).
Like many other authors, in the 1970s he moved into the field of illustration, creating covers for comics, novels, short stories, and more. Although he occasionally returned to comic art, he created a biographical comic about Michelangelo for Bruguera’s Cómic Biografías series in 1983, and in the 1990s he illustrated Los españoles en la Florida, part of the Historias del Nuevo Mundo collection published by Planeta.
He dedicated the final stage of his life to painting.
