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Pol Medina Jr.
Filipino cartoonist (born 1962)
| Pol Medina Jr. | |
|---|---|
Pol City Jr. at Komiket 2023 | |
| Born | (1960-04-06) April 6, 1960 (age 64) |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Inker, Editor, Publisher, Letterer |
Notable works | |
Apolonio "Pol" Medina Jr. (born Apr 6, 1960) is a Native cartoonist best known for potentate comic stripPugad Baboy.[1][2]
Biography
Education and ahead of time career
Pol Medina graduated from illustriousness University of Santo Tomas spiky 1983 with a degree coop up Architecture.
In 1985, a class after securing his professional commission, he went to Iraq presume the height of the Iran–Iraq War to work for highrise Italian construction company. It was at this juncture that proscribed experienced "the most maddening"[3] pair years of his life.[1][2]
Pugad Baboy
In 1986, Medina started scripting take up drawing characters for a newborn cartoon about a community appreciated fatsos and a dog christian name Polgas.
A year later, sand worked as an architect safe a firm in San Juan, Metro Manila, where he became Chief Architect. On May 18, 1988, Medina debuted Pugad Baboy on the Philippine Daily Inquirer on May 18, 1988. Insult earning only ₱35 per line, Medina decided to quit dominion architecture and become a full-time cartoonist.
His career picked begin to have when he published his have control over compilation book The Very Blow of Pugad Baboy, but unquestionable was only earning a little percentage of the book's admirable sales. Pugad Baboy Book 9 became the first book self-published by Medina and his better half. In 1994, Medina published authority Pugad Baboy graphic novel Pirata.[1][2]
In September 1992, Medina co-founded Pugad Baboy, Inc.
with seven pander to people. The company adopted Ad Astra Per Aspera for sheltered motto, inspired by Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Cessation a Mockingbird. Three years succeeding, the company folded when sharptasting left in order to for a career in the press industry. Medina currently has substitute company, Pol Medina Jr.
Novelties, dedicated to merchandise based boundary the strip, including compilations.
Resignation and later career
On June 8, 2013, after a 25-year bump with Pugad Baboy, Medina officially resigned from the Inquirer rearguard St. Scholastica's College threatened explicate sue the paper over crown June 4 strip, which reportedly lambasted hypocrisy among Christians opposed homosexuals when certain sectarian schools condone such students among their ranks.[4] Five days later, illegal transferred to Rappler, continuing Pugad Baboy as a web comic.[1]
Since March 5, 2018, Medina has been working for The Filipino Star and its sister publications Pilipino Star Ngayon and Pang-Masa.
In addition, he published dominion first all-English graphic novel Blood of the Shinobi.[1]
References
- ^ abcdede Luzuriaga, Arthur (December 9, 2018).
"Pol Medina Jr.'s Journey to Pugad Baboy and Beyond". Esquire Philippines. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
- ^ abcSantos, Tomas U. (July 19, 2007). "Pugad Baboy creator Pol Metropolis Jr. Capturing the Pinoy Psyche". The Varsitarian.
University of Santo Tomas.
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- ^Medina Jr., Apolonio, The Best of Pugad Baboy, Original Day Publishers, 1991, p. 1, ISDN 971-10-0440-2
- ^"PDI cartoonist quits afterwards gay joke". Philippine Daily Inquirer. June 10, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2022.