Nestor P Redondo 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.
10 Facts About Nestor Redondo
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Nestor Redondo's brother, Francisco "Quico" Redondo, was a comics artist as well.
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Nestor Redondo studied architecture at the Mapua Institute of Technology but left it to begin a career in illustration.
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Nestor Redondo began his career drawing Filipino komiks serials, which were written by his brother Virgilio, including Mars Ravelo's Darna series.
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In 1970, Nestor 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.
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Nestor Redondo helped Fago recruit fellow Filipino comics artists, who illustrated almost every comic Pendulum produced.
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Nestor Redondo was a panelist for the first Christian-comics panel of San Diego Comic-Con in 1992.
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In preparation for the First International Christian Comics Training Conference in Tagaytay, the Philippines, in January 1996, Nestor Redondo wrote On Realistic Illustration for his main teaching session, but died before he was able to deliver it personally.
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Nestor Redondo was living in Los Angeles County, California, at the time of his death on December 30,1995.
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In 1979, Nestor Redondo received the Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic-Con.