Rebeca Khamlichi (Madrid, 1987) is a painter, illustrator, and writer. Her creative universe is a vibrant collision of graphic design, 17th-century religious iconography, animated cartoons, copla music, and Goya’s Black Paintings.
Her debut graphic novel, The Daughters of Antonio López (Las hijas de Antonio López, Cross Books, 2024) was unanimously praised by critics. It reflects her and her sister’s childhood in a hostile family environment shaped by religious fanaticism, neglect, and addiction—a setting teeming with ghosts where innocence and harsh reality blend in a delicate, emotional, admirable, and profoundly healing way.
She has a greyhound with a human name, a cat named after a fruit, and a house named after a mode of transportation. She paints on a terrace in Madrid overlooking the rooftops of Lavapiés. And she does it, she says, because—for now—acrylics are still available without a prescription.
