Rod Espinosa

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Rod Espinosa
Born Philippines
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Rod Espinosa is a Filipino comics creator, writer, and illustrator. [1]

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Biography

Espinosa's work on The Courageous Princess [2] at Antarctic Press [3] earned him a nomination for Promising New Talent and Best Artist for the 2000 Ignatz Awards and a 2002 Eisner Award nomination for Best Title for Younger Readers.

His past work include the Battle Girlz series, a manga novel adaptation of Alice in Wonderland , [4] [5] The Alamo , Dinowars and Metadocs. He has also written and conceptualized popular Antarctic Press titles such as I Hunt Monsters and Herc and Thor.

Humanitarian work

In 2008, Espinosa won an international contest sponsored by the United Nations and the World Health Organization entitled Stop Tuberculosis. The Stop TB comic book educating people about how to avoid Tuberculosis featured soccer star Luís Figo as the spokesman. [6] [7]

In 2009, Espinosa joined 60 other Filipino artists from all over the world and contributed to the tribute book Renaissance: Ang Muling Pagsilang, the sales of which were donated to the victims of typhoon Ondoy.

Bibliography

Steampunk Fairy Tale series

Immortal Wings series

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  1. Cynthia de Castro (8 September 2008). "The Prince of Heroes". AJPress. Archived from the original on 19 February 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  2. Buchanan, Rebecca (7 September 2009). "Comics For the Classroom: Take Two" . Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  3. Ellis, Warren (3 November 2000). "Come In Alone". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  4. Carter, R.J. (18 February 2006). "Comic Book Review: New Alice in Wonderland #1". www.the-trades.com. Burlee LLC. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  5. "At the Brookline Public Libraries: June 14". Brookline TAB. GateHouse News Service. 12 June 2007. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  6. "Vaincre la tuberculose par la BD". www.auracan.com (in French). Auracan. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  7. "Figo marca goles a la tuberculosis desde las viñetas de un nuevo tebeo" (in Spanish). Mundinteractivos, S.A. Retrieved 1 May 2010.