His is a more indigenous style of Filipino comics illustrationĬompared to that of Alcala or Redondo. Niño’s critical appeal may partly be due to the distinctness of Singular creative vision redefined comic book art for everyone that Kirby, Moebius, Kazuo Koike, and Alberto Breccia an artist whose He has been hailed as a comics visionary on par with Jack Of the first generation of Filipino Wave artists, Alex Niño isĪrguably the one who has received the most international criticalĪcclaim. [NOTE: Portions of the following text were first published on The “Filipino Wave,” as it came to be called, saw the likes of Nestor Redondo, Alfredo Alcala, Tony DeZuniga, Rudy Nebres, Ernie Chan, and many others pencil and/or ink scores of issues for DC, Marvel, Warren, and other outfits, helping define the look of an era. Every Friday, I take a look at the work of one of the dozens of Filipino artists who illustrated horror, sword-and-sorcery/fantasy, western, sci-fi, and war comics for American publishers during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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