Maximo Vitaly Lorenzo (born June 4, 1982 in

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artist for comic books and illustrations.

Biography

Lorenzo started his comic book career in 2004, winning a placement for writing and illustrating "Hellbender" for

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Issue 4 competition. Immediately after he attended the " Joe Kubert School" of comic books and cartooning for two years. In 2006 he received freelance work to illustrate Tokyopop's property ''Bombos Versus Everything'' a 182-page graphic novel of the shonen genre, originally written by Andy Helms. Between 2006-2007, while working on ''Bombos VS. Everything'', he worked as a caricature and portrait artist for Kaman's Art Shoppes. In the summer of 2008 Maximo V. Lorenzo completed art and writing for an 8-page story "Avocado Allegrando" to be included in '' Popgun 3'' a

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. In the fall of 2008 he was hired to work on ''Ghostbusters: Ghost Busted'' a

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comic anthology. Maximo V. Lorenzo's contributions were, art for "Theater of Pain" written by Matt Yamashita, Ink and tone work for "Worm in the apple" and "Ghost Busted" story by Nathan Johnson, art by Micheal Shelfer. During Domo Kun's special 7-11 campaign, Maximo was featured in a short 7-11 version of the Domo Kun comic in October 2009. At the end of 2009 he competed in and won

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competition with his entry "One Hit Knock Out".

Bibliography

Tokyopop

* '' RSOM4'': "Hellbender" (

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, tpb, ) * '' Bombos VS. Everything'' (with Andy Helms, August

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

,

* '' Ghostbusters (comics), Ghostbusters: Ghostbusted'' (

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

* ''

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'' (

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

)

Image Comics

* '' Popgun Volume 3'': "Avocado Allegrando" (

, ) (

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Winning) * '' Popgun Volume 4'': "Avocado Allegrando" (

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

)

DC Comics

* "ONE HIT KNOCK OUT" (

UDON

* "MEGAMAN TRIBUTE" (

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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

WEBCOMICS

* "ONE HIT KNOCK OUT" (

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

References

External links

Website

Webcomic

Deviant Art Gallery

Destuctiod Feature

Interviews

Interview with Anime News Network

Interview with Rocket Llama

Interview with ROBOT 6
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