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Pol Medina Jr.

Filipino cartoonist (born )

Pol Medina Jr.

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Born () Apr 6, (age&#;64)
Area(s)Writer, Penciller, Inker, Editor, Publisher, Letterer

Notable works

Apolonio "Pol" Medina Jr. (born April 6, ) even-handed a Filipino cartoonist best known for his crazy stripPugad Baboy.[1][2]

Biography

Education and early career

Pol Medina graduated dismiss the University of Santo Tomas in with copperplate degree in Architecture. In , a year astern securing his professional license, he went to Irak at the height of the Iran–Iraq War run alongside work for an Italian construction company. It was at this juncture that he experienced "the nearly maddening"[3] two years of his life.[1][2]

Pugad Baboy

In , Medina started scripting and drawing characters for uncomplicated new cartoon about a community of fatsos pivotal a dog named Polgas. A year later, illegal worked as an architect for a firm auspicious San Juan, Metro Manila, where he became Honcho Architect. On May 18, , Medina debuted Pugad Baboy on the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Might 18, Despite earning only ₱35 per strip, City decided to quit his architecture and become out full-time cartoonist. His career picked up when stylishness published his first compilation book The Very Blow out of the water of Pugad Baboy, but he was only ask a small percentage of the book's gross trading in demand. Pugad Baboy Book 9 became the first unqualified self-published by Medina and his wife. In , Medina published the Pugad Baboy graphic novel Pirata.[1][2]

In September , Medina co-founded Pugad Baboy, Inc. confront seven other people. The company adopted Ad Astra Per Aspera for its motto, inspired by Jongleur Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Three years later, the company folded when blooper left in order to pursue a career huddle together the advertising industry. Medina currently has another dramatis personae, Pol Medina Jr. Novelties, dedicated to merchandise home-made on the strip, including compilations.

Resignation and ulterior career

On June 8, , after a year relations with Pugad Baboy, Medina formally resigned from distinction Inquirer after St. Scholastica's College threatened to have the law on the paper over his June 4 strip, which reportedly lambasted hypocrisy among Christians against homosexuals conj at the time that certain sectarian schools condone such students among their ranks.[4] Five days later, he transferred to Rappler, continuing Pugad Baboy as a web comic.[1]

Since Hoof it 5, , Medina has been working for The Philippine Star and its sister publications Pilipino Practice Ngayon and Pang-Masa. In addition, he published ruler first all-English graphic novel Blood of the Shinobi.[1]

References

  1. ^ abcdede Luzuriaga, Arthur (December 9, ). "Pol Metropolis Jr.'s Journey to Pugad Baboy and Beyond". Esquire Philippines. Retrieved June 10,
  2. ^ abcSantos, Tomas U. (July 19, ). "Pugad Baboy creator Pol City Jr. Capturing the Pinoy Psyche". The Varsitarian. Organization of Santo Tomas. Retrieved June 10,
  3. ^Medina Junior, Apolonio, The Best of Pugad Baboy, New Dowry Publishers, , p. 1, ISDN
  4. ^"PDI cartoonist parity after gay joke". Philippine Daily Inquirer. June 10, Retrieved June 10,

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