Dembilio, María - Original page - Romántico - El hombre que nunca existió - 1960

Maria Dembilio assures that she had drawing in her veins from a young age, spending her time at school drawing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the end of her notebook pages.

He started in 1960 alongside Carmen Mas, working in the offices of the agency Selecciones Ilustradas, initially making corrections in the mornings and later dedicating himself to comic strip drawing. He remained there until 1965 when he married another artist from the company, Julián Morote Ribero, with whom he began a romantic relationship in 1962. In 1966, his daughter Cristina was born.

He worked for Bruguera and Toray, especially for the foreign market, collaborating on British magazines (Tammy, Love Story) and for Oberon in Haarlem (Netherlands). During his time with Bruguera, he worked almost exclusively through agencies, seeing his works published in the markets of Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands. He also worked with the German publisher Bastei, through the mediation of José Ortega. In Spain, his work was published in Rosas Blancas and Azucena, among others.

Due to the scarcity of well-paid work in Spain, she embarks with her husband on a ten-day journey, determined to find work on their own in the comic industry in Paris, Brussels, and some Italian cities.

Maria would do some of her work as a duo with her husband Juliás Morote, each complementing what the other did not want to do. Thus, Julián loved reading the script and starting the story, but hated drawing backgrounds and buildings. While completing that part of the work, he would dress the characters and ink them.

Since 2000, he has been teaching drawing and painting classes at a Donnes Club in Castelldefels, after developing a liking for painting during a craft course.