Nestor Redondo
| Nestor Redondo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 4, 1928 Candon, Ilocos Sur, Philippine Islands |
| Died | December 30, 1995 (aged 67) Los Angeles County, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker, Publisher, Animation Designer, Painter |
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Notable works
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Limited Collectors' Edition #C-36 (The Bible), Rima, the Jungle Girl, Savage Sword of Conan, Swamp Thing |
| Awards | Inkpot Award, 1979 |
Nestor P. Redondo (May 4, 1928 – December 30, 1995) was a Filipino comic book artist best known for his work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and other American publishers in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Redondo was born May 4, 1928, in Candon, Ilocos Sur, in what was then the American territory the Philippine Islands. His brother, Francisco "Quico" Redondo, was a comics artist as well.
He studied architecture at the Mapúa Institute of Technology in Manila until fourth year, and did not finish having been lured into drawing in comics and working in advertising.
Redondo began his career drawing Filipino komiks serials, which were written by his brother Virgilio, including Mars Ravelo's Darna series. In 1969 and 1970 Redondo did a four-page serial Mga Kasaysayang Buhat sa Bibliya (Tales from the Bible) in each issue of Superyor Komiks Magasin, which was produced by his own company, Nestor Redondo Publications. This company launched a program of on-the-job training for young writers and artists.
In the 1970s, Redondo began to do work for publishers in the United States. His earliest U.S. credit is penciling and inking the ten-page story "The King Is Dead", by writer Jack Oleck, in DC Comics' House of Mystery #194 (Sept. 1971). Through the 1970s, Redondo drew dozens of such supernatural anthology stories for DC titles including House of Secrets, The Phantom Stranger, Secrets of Sinister House, The Unexpected, Weird War Tales, and The Witching Hour. He drew six of the seven issues of Rima, the Jungle Girl (May 1974 - March 1975), based on the heroine of a Victorian novel, as well as Swamp Thing #11-23 (Aug. 1974 - July 1976), and DC's tabloid-sized one-shot collection of Bible stories, cover-titled The Bible but officially titled Limited Collectors' Edition #C-36 (July 1975). Nestor Redondo and his brother Frank Redondo (b. 1942, d. 2010) often collaborated and credited together as the "Redondo Studio" most notably on the Ragman series for DC.
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