Nestor Redondo Explained

Birth Date:4 May 1928
Birth Place:Candon, Ilocos Sur, Philippine Islands, U.S.
Death Place:Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Area:Penciller, Inker, Publisher, Animation Designer, Painter
Notable Works:Darna,
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)[1] was a Filipino comics artist best known for his work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and other American publishers in the 1970s and early 1980s. In his native Philippines, he is known for co-creating the superheroine Darna.

Early life

Redondo was born May 4, 1928, in Candon, Ilocos Sur, in what was then the United States territory of the Philippine Islands.[2] [3] His brother, Francisco "Quico" Redondo, was a comics artist as well.[4]

He studied architecture at the Mapúa Institute of Technology but left it to begin a career in illustration.[5]

Career

Early work

Redondo began his career drawing Filipino komiks serials, which were written by his brother Virgilio,[6] including Mars Ravelo's Darna series. In 1969 and 1970 Redondo did the four-page serial ”Mga Kasaysayang Buhat sa Bibliya” (“Tales from the Bible”) in each issue of Superyor Komiks Magasin, which was produced by his company Nestor Redondo Publications. This company launched a program of on-the-job training for young writers and artists.[2] [3]

U.S. work

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),[7] based on the heroine of a Victorian novel,[8] as well as Swamp Thing #11–23 (Aug. 1974 – July 1976),[9] 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).[10] Nestor Redondo and his brother Frank Redondo often collaborated and were credited together as the "Redondo Studio", including on the Ragman series for DC.[11] [12]

In 1970, Redondo was approached by Vincent Fago of Pendulum Press to illustrate stories for that publisher’s new line of comic book adaptations of literary classics. Redondo helped Fago recruit fellow Filipino comics artists,[13] who illustrated almost every comic Pendulum produced. From 1973 to 1979, Redondo illustrated many stories in the Pendulum Illustrated Classics line, including Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — adaptations which were reprinted by Marvel Comics three years later as Marvel Classics Comics. Other adaptations illustrated by Redondo for Pendulum included The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, some Edgar Allan Poe stories, The Odyssey, and Romeo and Juliet. In addition, Redondo illustrated a Pendulum comic-book history of the American Civil War, and biographies of Madame Curie, Albert Einstein, and Abraham Lincoln.

In the mid-1980s, Redondo inked the Eclipse Comics time-travel series Aztec Ace, by writer Doug Moench and pencilers Michael Hernandez and Dan Day. In 1990, he contributed to the second issue of the Marvel Comics superhero series Solarman as well as to an issue of Innovation Comics' Legends of the Stargrazers. Redondo collaborated with writer Roy Thomas on an adaptation of Robert E. Howard's Marchers of Valhalla in the mid-1990s, but the finished comic book never saw print.

Christian comics

More regularly, Redondo contributed to various Christian comics. In addition to DC Comics' 1975 one-shot collection of Bible stories, Redondo illustrated Marx, Lenin, Mao and Christ, published in 1977 by Open Doors (and reprinted in 2010 by Calvary Comics); Pendulum's Ben-Hur, published in 1978; Born Again Comics #2 (featuring the story of Filipino actor-turned-evangelist Fred Galang) in 1988; and Aida-Zee, Behold 3-D, and Christian Comics & Games #0 and #1, produced in the 1990s by The Nate Butler Studio. Redondo was a panelist for the first Christian-comics panel of San Diego Comic-Con in 1992.[14]

In preparation for the First 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.

Death

Redondo was living in Los Angeles County, California, at the time of his death on December 30, 1995.

Awards

In 1979, Redondo received the Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic-Con.[15]

Bibliography

Continuity Comics

DC Comics

Eclipse Comics

Innovation Publishing

Marvel Comics

Nate Butler Studio, Inc.

Pacific Comics

Pendulum Press

Peter Pan Records

Warren Publishing

Western Publishing

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JG4V-6PV Nestor P. Redondo
  2. Web site: Nestor Redondo. July 29, 2012. Lambiek Comiclopedia. https://web.archive.org/web/20120928190408/http://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/redondo.htm. September 28, 2012. live.
  3. Web site: Nestor Redondo . The Philippine Comics Art Museum . Doroteo L., ed. . Alanguilan . April 19, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120906040744/http://www.alanguilan.com/museum/redondo.html . September 6, 2012 . dead .
  4. Web site: Redondo, Frank. Jerry. Bails. Jerry Bails. n.d.. Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999. https://web.archive.org/web/20070511144324/http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=REDONDO%2c+FRANK. May 11, 2007. live.
  5. Web site: Nestor Redondo. Gerry. Alanguilan. Gerry Alanguilan. April 20, 2006. The Philippine Comics Art Museum. https://web.archive.org/web/20170210032338/http://www.alanguilan.com/museum/redondo.html. February 10, 2017. dead. Nestor took up Architecture at the Mapúa Institute of Technology at the behest of his parents, who believed that one comics artist in the family was enough. Nestor's brother Virgilio was at the time already illustrating comics for Bulaklak Publications..
  6. Web site: Virgilio Redondo. July 29, 2012. Lambiek Comiclopedia. https://web.archive.org/web/20150213065959/http://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/redondo_virgilio.htm. February 13, 2015. live.
  7. Book: McAvennie, Michael. Dolan. Hannah, ed.. 1970s. DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. 2010. London, United Kingdom. 978-0-7566-6742-9. 160. Editor Joe Kubert's gorgeous covers, plus the untamed beauty of South America's wildlife and flora, as accentuated by famed Filipino artist Nestor Redondo, were unforgettable..
  8. Book: Levitz, Paul. Paul Levitz. The Bronze Age 1970–1984. 75 Years of DC Comics The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Taschen. 2010. Cologne, Germany. 9783836519816. 543. W. H. Hudson's 1904 novel Green Mansions provided a heroine to serve as a counterpart to Tarzan, then being published by DC..
  9. Levitz, p. 482: The search for [''Swamp Thing'' artist Bernie Wrightson's] replacement led to the Filipino talent pool that was producing most of the mystery line's art - a studio now led by Nestor Redondo, a premier artist in that country."
  10. Zeno. Eddy. DC Comics' The Bible. Back Issue!. 61. 17–23. TwoMorrows Publishing. December 2012. Raleigh, North Carolina.
  11. McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 171: "Writer Robert Kanigher's origin of the frayed hero was pieced together into moody, coarse segments by Joe Kubert and Nestor, Frank, and Quico Redondo."
  12. Web site: Ragman. Don. Markstein. 2010. Don Markstein's Toonopedia. https://archive.today/20150216082658/http://www.toonopedia.com/ragman.htm. February 16, 2015. live.
  13. Fago, Vincent, "Nestor Redondo and the Pendulum Classics," in Arthur Conan Doyle: Rosebud Graphic Classics (Eureka Productions, 2002), pp. 4-6.
  14. Web site: Nestor Redondo - Christian Comics Pioneer. n.d.. Christian Comics International. https://web.archive.org/web/20131230235626/http://www.christiancomicsinternational.org/pioneers2.html. December 30, 2013. live.
  15. Web site: Inkpot Award Winners. Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. https://web.archive.org/web/20120709055558/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/inkpot.php. July 9, 2012. dead. February 13, 2015.

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