Natacha Bustos

Natacha Bustos, born November 9, 1981 in Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain, is a Spanish comic-book artist. Bustos began working on the Star Wars franchise by illustrating variant covers for publisher Marvel Comics. Her first cover was for the eighth issue of the comic series Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, published on March 24, 2021. The cover depicts archaeologist Chelli Lona Aphra and smuggler Sana Starros swinging through the air. Bustos's second cover was for the fourth issue of the 2021 comic series Star Wars: The High Republic, published on April 7 of the same year. The cover features Jedi Knight Keeve Trennis and a member of the Drengir species. In September of that year, Bustos revealed several sketches and initial versions of her variant cover for The High Republic, showing the illustration process in various stages.

On February 16, 2022, StarWars.com announced that Bustos would pencil the twenty-third issue of the series Star Wars: Bounty Hunters. The issue was written by Ethan Sacks and published by Marvel Comics on June 1 of the same year. Bustos returned to Star Wars: Doctor Aphra later that year with two projects. She pencilled the interiors of the series' twenty-second issue, published on July 27, 2022, alongside artist Minkyu Jung. Additionally, Bustos illustrated the variant cover for the series' twenty-fifth issue, released on October 26 of the same year. The cover features Aphra and Starros locked in a duel.

In 2023, Bustos illustrated interior art for the twenty-ninth issue of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, which released on February 22. She also illustrated a variant cover for the second issue of the Star Wars: Sana Starros comic miniseries, which released on March 8. The cover featured Starros holding a EE-4 carbine rifle. Bustos later drew a variant cover for the ninth issue of the 2022 series Star Wars: The High Republic, which was published on May 10, 2023/ The artwork featured Padawan Matthea Cathley battling a Force-consuming Nameless creature, the Leveler.