The Artist Who Paints With Feeling In an industry full of digital polish, Suspiria Vilchez still picks up a brush. The results speak for themselves. The reason behind it is worth hearing.

Our conversation with cover and variant artist Suspiria Vilchez is now live on Back to Pop.

Suspiria Vilchez is a Barcelona-born, Toronto-based artist whose hand-painted acrylic covers have appeared through BOOM Studios, IDW, Image, Penthouse Comics, and Sumerian Comics — on titles including Buffy: The Last Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dune, Hunt for the Skinwalker, G.I. Joe: Hama Files Edition, Magic: Nahiri the Lithomancer, Nectar, Neighborhood Watch, and Odin.

This episode goes behind the canvas, from growing up in Barcelona and absorbing European comics culture, to developing a visual voice shaped by artists like Moebius and Juan Giménez, to building a style so recognizable you know it before you see her name.

Marc and Suspiria dig into what it actually takes to work in traditional media when the industry has largely moved on, how she learned to trust her creative instincts while still navigating the realities of the comics business, and what the emotional process of making a cover really looks like, how a piece begins, how mood and character shape the final image, and what separates art that looks good from art that stays with you.

At its heart, this is a conversation about identity, discipline, and the courage to make work that feels unmistakably your own.

If you’ve ever stood in front of a comic rack and felt a cover stop you cold — this episode is for you.

Listen to the full episode now on Back to Pop.

Follow Suspiria’s work:
Instagram: @suspirialand
X/Twitter: @suspiriart
Website: suspirialand.com