Antonio Altarriba is interested in the visual aspects of writing and the narrative potentialities of images. Also in erotic literature. About these he has written several books, such as Sobre literatura potencial (1987), Comicsarías (1987), La España del tebeo (2001, 2022), Tintín y el loto rosa (2007) or La paradoja del libertino (2008). As a screenwriter, he is the autor of cartoon albums like Desfase (1986), Detective (1991), Amores locos (2005), El brillo del gato negro (2008), El arte de volar (2009), El paso del tiempo (2011), Yo, asesino (2014), El ala rota (2016), El perdón y la furia (2017), Cuerpos del delito (2017), Yo, loco (2018), Yo, mentiroso (2020), and photographic series compiled in El elefante rubio (2007) or Vida salvaje (2008). As a fiction writer he has published El filo de la luna (1993), Cuerpos entretejidos (1996), La memoria de la nieve (2002) and Maravilla en el país de las Alicias (2010).
His Works have been translated to fifteen languages.