Joan Urgell is a Catalan cartoonist, trained at the Escola Joso in Barcelona. After several years spent as an illustrator at Disney and designer in various companies, he created the art for the two-volume thriller La onzième plaie by Nicolas Tackian, published by Soleil in 2008 and 2009. Still for Soleil, he worked on the post-apocalyptic trilogy Dead Life by Jean-Charles Gaudin from 2011 to 2017, and the short series Clivages between 2019 and 2020, an adventure of a young woman in a civil war in Eastern Europe.

All his plates are hand-drawn in direct colors.