Caesar Rodriguez is an artist who has worked as a
colorist
In comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black-and-white line art. For most of the 20th century this was done using brushes and dyes which were then used as guides to produce the printing plates. Since the late 20th century it is ...
in the comics industry.
Biography
Rodriguez has been a regular comics reader since he was four years old. In 1989, he opened a comic and magazine shop in Los Angeles. There he met several artists and was doing work painting, creating graphics, sculpture, etc. in a studio in the store. One of these artists included J. D. Smith, a freelance artist who later got work with
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, manga and Artist's book, art book publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon, by Mike Richardson in 1986. The company was created using funds earned from Richardson's chain of Portland, O ...
on their
Dracula
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series.
His first published work was as a penciller for
Click Comics, where he worked with
Joe Casey
Joe Casey is an American comic book writer. He has worked on titles such as '' Wildcats 3.0'', ''Uncanny X-Men'', '' The Intimates'', '' Adventures of Superman'', and '' G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' among others. As part of the comics creator gro ...
on ''The Chosen''. Shortly thereafter, he was working with J. D. Smith as his assistant on ''
Fathom
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'', ''
Spirit of the Tao'', and ''
Witchblade
''Witchblade'' is an American comic book Ongoing series, series published by Top Cow Productions, an imprint (trade name), imprint of Image Comics, which ran from November 1995 to October 2015. The series was created by Top Cow founder and owne ...
'' as a production artist and background colorist. He also worked with
Steve Firchow and
Richard Isanove doing production work on ''
Daredevil'', ''Daredevil: Father'', ''
X-Men
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'', ''
Ultimate X-Men
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'', ''
Wolverine: Origin'', ''
Aphrodite 9'', ''
More than Mortal
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Computing
* MORE (application), outline software for Mac OS
* more (command), a shell command
* MORE protocol, a routing protocol
* Missouri Research and Education Network
Music Albums
* ''More!'' (album), by Booka Shade, ...
'', ''
The Maxx
''The Maxx'' is an American comic book series created by Sam Kieth in 1993 and originally published monthly until 1998 by Image Comics for 35 issues, before being collected in trade paperback by DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint. The first appearanc ...
'', ''
Marvel 1602
''Marvel 1602'', or simply ''1602'', is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowe ...
'', ''
Ant-Man
Ant-Man is the name of several superheroes appearing in books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby, his first appearance was in '' Tales to Astonish'' #27 (January 1962) as Dr. Henry ...
Christmas Special'', ''
Conan: Red Nails'', ''
Magneto Rex''.
In San Diego, he met
Brandon Peterson
Brandon Peterson (born 1969) is an American comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Marvel Comics and Top Cow's ''Codename: Strykeforce'' in the 1990s.
Career
Peterson's early works for Marvel include a ''New Warriors'' annual and a ...
who later hired him at
Crossgen
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. His work there included ''
Scion
Scion may refer to:
Horticulture
*Scion (grafting), in horticulture, the upper part of a combined plant Arts, entertainment, and media Characters
*Atlantean Scion, a device in the ''Tomb Raider'' video game series
*Scion, avatar of the warrior en ...
'' and ''
Sojourn''. Most recently, he has been hired with
Richard Isanove as a colorists for
Dynamite Entertainment
Dynamite Entertainment is an American comic book publisher founded in 2004 by Nick Barrucci in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, known for publishing comic book adaptations of licensed feature film properties, such as ''Army of Darkness'', '' Terminator ...
's ''
Red Sonja
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'' series. His other published work includes ''
CrossGen Chronicles
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'', ''
Crux
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'', ''Sojourn'', ''
The First The First or The 1st may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Albums
* The 1st (album), ''The 1st'' (album), by Willow, 2017
* The First (Shinee album), ''The First'' (Shinee album), 2011
* The First (single album), by NCT Dream, 2017
Television
* T ...
'', and
R. A. Salvatore's ''
DemonWars
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''. He is working with
Eric Basaldua
Eric Basaldua (born August 26, 1980, and sometimes credited as Ebas) is an American comic book artist
Career
Basaldua started his career at Top Cow studios working directly under its founder, Marc Silvestri, starting with backgrounds for him. H ...
, coloring covers for
Top Cow
Top Cow Productions is an American comics publisher, an imprint (trade name), imprint of Image Comics. It was founded by Marc Silvestri in 1992. The company is known for publishing titles such as ''Cyber Force (comics), Cyberforce'', ''The Darknes ...
, Dynamite Entertainment and
Zenescope publications.
He is also currently working with 813 Services & Solutions, a publishing contract firm.
Caesar Rodriguez
at 813 Services & Solutions
References
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External links
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Interviews
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American comics artists