Antonio Ordóñez (Madrid, 1987) signs his work as AtOLOnia to reconnect with the magical world of his childhood. Ato, as his friends call him, was a child who spent hours with a spiral notebook and grid paper, drawing the characters from his favorite comics and inventing his own.

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Like a superhero, he always led a double life. In the mornings he studied Business and Marketing at university; in the afternoons, you could find him breakdancing in the subway, performing with a university theater group, or filling notebooks with graffiti. His artistic training never came from academies: it was built through study, exploration, constant practice, and a genuine need to express himself. Comics returned to his life in 2015 as a natural form of expression, and since then he has fully embraced the identity of his alter ego, AtOLOnia.

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This self-taught journey, combined with his passion for drawing and storytelling, allowed him to become a professional illustrator in 2019, without giving up his own stories for children. In the field of picture books, he has self-published his children’s titles Rexi aprende (2021) and Mi granito de arena (2020), and has been a finalist in competitions such as Keycolors 2022 (an international picture book contest) and the Hola Monstruo Editorial Contest 2023.

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In 2025, he published his first work as both author and illustrator: Las diminutas aventuras de Abril (Edebé), a children’s comic series.