Natacha Bustos

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"I've always loved comics, and it's been my personal challenge to dedicate myself to this. Since I was really young, if you know that you like it, you have to fight for it. It's something that really comes from the inside. It's a very visceral feeling."

―Natacha Bustos^[3]

Natacha Bustos (born November 9, 1981 in Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain) is a Spanish comic-book artist. Bustos has contributed to several Star Wars comic series, including the 2020 series Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, the 2021 series Star Wars: The High Republic, the 2022 series Star Wars: The High Republic, and the 2023 miniseries Star Wars: Sana Starros, for which Bustos illustrated variant covers. She also illustrated the interiors of issues for the series Star Wars: Bounty Hunters and Star Wars: Doctor Aphra.

Biography[]

Natacha Bustos,^[2] born November 9,^[1] 1981 in Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain, is a Spanish comic-book artist.^[2] Bustos began working on the Star Wars franchise by illustrating variant covers for publisher Marvel Comics. Her first cover was for the eighth issue of the comic series Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, published on March 24, 2021. The cover depicts^[4] archaeologist^[5] Chelli Lona Aphra and^[4] smuggler^[5] Sana Starros swinging through the air.^[4] Bustos's second cover was for the fourth issue of the 2021 comic series Star Wars: The High Republic, published on April 7 of the same year. The cover features^[6] Jedi Knight^[7] Keeve Trennis and a member of the Drengir species.^[6] In September of that year, Bustos revealed several sketches and initial versions of her variant cover for The High Republic, showing the illustration process in various stages.^[8]

DoctorAphra2020-25-variant-Bustos — Bustos's variant cover for *Doctor Aphra* (2020) 25

On February 16, 2022, StarWars.com announced that Bustos would pencil the twenty-third issue of the series Star Wars: Bounty Hunters.^[9] The issue was written by Ethan Sacks and published by Marvel Comics on June 1 of the same year.^[10] Bustos returned to Star Wars: Doctor Aphra later that year with two projects. She pencilled the interiors of the series' twenty-second issue, published on July 27, 2022, alongside artist Minkyu Jung.^[11] Additionally, Bustos illustrated the variant cover for the series' twenty-fifth issue, released on October 26 of the same year. The cover features Aphra and Starros locked in a duel.^[12]

In 2023, Bustos illustrated interior art for the twenty-ninth issue of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, which released on February 22.^[13] She also illustrated a variant cover for the second issue of the Star Wars: Sana Starros comic miniseries, which released on March 8. The cover featured Starros holding a EE-4 carbine rifle.^[14] Bustos later drew a variant cover for the ninth issue of the 2022 series Star Wars: The High Republic, which was published on May 10, 2023/^[15] The artwork featured Padawan Matthea Cathley battling a Force-consuming Nameless creature, the Leveler.^[16]

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Year	Title	Contribution
2021	Doctor Aphra (2020) 8	Variant cover^[4]
2021	The High Republic (2021) 4	Variant cover^[6]
2022	Bounty Hunters 23	Penciller, inker^[10]
	Doctor Aphra (2020) 22	Penciller^[11]
	Doctor Aphra (2020) 25	Variant cover^[12]
2023	Doctor Aphra (2020) 29	Penciller, inker^[13]
	Sana Starros 2	Variant cover^[14]
	The High Republic (2022) 9	Variant cover^[15]