Nestor Redondo

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Nestor Redondo

Born	1928 Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker, Publisher, Animation Designer
Notable works	Tarzan, Swamp Thing, Rima, Conan, DC's tabloid-size Bible

Panel, DC Comics' Rima the Jungle Girl #6 (March 1975). Art by Nestor Redondo.

Nestor Redondo (born April 5, 1928, in Candon, Ilocos Sur, The Philippines; died December 1995)^[1]^[2] was a comic-book artist best-known for his work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and other American publishers in the 1970s and early 1980s.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life and career
- 1.2 Later life and career
2 Awards
3 Footnotes
4 References
5 Eternal Links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life and career

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.^[1]^[2]

In the 1970s, Redondo began to do work for publishers in the United States. His earliest U.S. credit is penciling and inking the seven-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 Witching Hour. He went on to draw all seven issues of Rima the Jungle Girl (May 1974 - May 1975), based on the heroine of a Victorian novel, as well as Swamp Thing #11-23 (Aug. 1974 - July 1976), issues of Tarzan and Lois Lane, 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).

Redondo also drew for editor Vincent Fago's 1973 Pendulum Press Illustrated Classics, including Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adaptations reprinted by Marvel Comics three years later as Marvel Classics Comics. Directly for Marvel, he drew many stories of Conan the Barbarian in the black-and-white comics magazine The Savage Sword of Conan.

[edit] Later life and career

In the mid-1980s, Redondo inked the [{Eclipse Comics]] time-travel series Aztec Ace, by writer Doug Moench and penciler Michael Hernandez. In 1990, he contributed to two issues of the Marvel Comics superhero series Solarman as well as to an issue of Innovation Comics' Newstralia.

More regularly, however, Redondo over the years has contributed to various Christian comics, including Marx, Lenin, Mao and Christ, published in 1977 by Open Doors, Aida-Zee and Behold 3-D, produced in the 1990s by Nate Butler Studio, and a comic about Filipino actor Fred Galang. He was also a panelist for the first Christian comics panel discussion of Comic-Con International, in 1992.^[3]

At the end of his life and career Redondo worked as an animation designer for the Marvel Studios in Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

In preparation for the 1st International Christian Comics Training Conference in Tagaytay, the Philippines, in January 1996, Redondo wrote On Realistic Illustration for his main teaching session but died before he was able to deliver it personally.^[3]