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{"id":661,"date":"2022-06-27T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcgcomics.com\/?page_id=661"},"modified":"2024-04-09T04:49:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:49:45","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wcgcomics.com\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"661\" class=\"elementor elementor-661\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45d33473 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"45d33473\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6f653565\" data-id=\"6f653565\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-381ae42d elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"381ae42d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 08-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:separator --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcgcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ELdT6wK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Cartoonist Randy Reynaldo is the artist-writer-creator of <strong><em>Rob Hanes Adventures<\/em><\/strong>, a fun, light-hearted action-adventure-variety comic book series about a modern-day globetrotting private eye. In 2018, Randy was a featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\/2018\/special-guests?page=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special guest<\/a> at the San Diego Comic-Con, where he was surprised with a prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/randywcgcomics\/status\/1020088293386465280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inkpot Award<\/a> for Achievement in Comic Arts. (Past Inkpot recipients include Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">Inspired by the classic soldier of fortune adventure comic strips of yesteryear, <strong><em>Rob Hanes Adventures<\/em><\/strong> is an ongoing independent comic-book series published under Randy\u2019s WCG Comics imprint. The series will reach milestone issue #25 in 2024. The series also currently is being collected in trade paperback, which includes two collections of stories that predate the current series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/Vch6gUU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Vch6gUU.png\" alt=\"Inkpot Award\" width=\"118\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a>Randy\u2019s high-contrast black-and-white art and tales of high adventure follows the footsteps of classic comic strips like <a href=\"https:\/\/wcgcomics.blogspot.com\/p\/in-memorium-will-eisner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Eisner<\/a>\u2019s <em>Spirit<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wcgcomics.blogspot.com\/p\/remembering-roy-crane.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roy Crane<\/a>\u2018s <em>Buz Sawyer<\/em>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wcgcomics.blogspot.com\/p\/a-case-history-of-comics-as-art-work-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milton Caniff<\/a>\u2018s <em>Terry and the Pirates, <\/em>and master storytellers like Caniff and <a href=\"https:\/\/wcgcomics.blogspot.com\/p\/a-case-history-of-comics-as-art-work-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Toth.<\/a> The series has been described as a \u201cgrown-up Jonny Quest,\u201d and compared to Tintin, James Bond, Indiana Jones, and the recent Mission: Impossible films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">The artist&#8217;s work has appeared in several anthologies, including <em>Love in Tights<\/em> #2 (Slave Labor Graphics), <em>Negative Burn<\/em> #30 and 39 (Caliber Comics), and <em>Wolff &amp; Byrd<\/em> #7 (pinup), and earned coverage and numerous accolades online and in past industry trade publications like the <em>Comic Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/em>, <em>Wizard<\/em>, <em>Back Issue<\/em>, and <em>indy<\/em>. Randy and <em>Rob Hanes Adventures<\/em> have been also profiled, reviewed and featured on sites like wired.com, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/?s=Randy+Reynaldo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcomicsnews.com\/?s=Randy+Reynaldo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Comics News<\/a>, Comic Book Resources, Bleeding Cool News, and Newsarama. He also has been interviewed and a guest on Talk Audio Soup, a public radio show devoted to popular culture and, more recently, on <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffgcomics.podbean.com\/e\/randy-reynaldo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blockhead: Cartoonists Talk Comics<\/a> podcast and the Comics Arts Workshop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">In addition to the Inkpot Award, Randy is a 1995 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xeric_Foundation\">Xeric Foundation<\/a> award recipient. That same year, he was nominated for the Russ Manning Award for Most Promising Newcomer, presented at the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The Xeric grant funded the publication of the <em>Rob Hanes Archives<\/em>, a trade paperback collection of earlier work from the series. Randy also is a longtime member of the Southern California-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capscentral.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cartoon Arts Professional Society<\/a> (CAPS), for which he has served as vice president and treasurer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">Born and raised in New York City, Randy resides and works in Southern California with his wife and two children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcgcomics.com\/about-the-author\/checklist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WCG Checklist<\/a> at this website for a full list of Randy\u2019s credits. An archive of published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcgcomics.com\/interviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviews<\/a> is also available.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>About WCG Comics<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px; margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcgcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/e4pZodb.jpg\" alt=\"WCG Comics logo\" width=\"1165\" height=\"1200\" align=\"right\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">WCG Comics is the publishing imprint and studio name for cartoonist Randy Reynaldo, the publisher-writer-artist of the comic-book series<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 16px; color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">\u00a0<strong>Rob Hanes Adventures<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"16px\"}}} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\">WCG Comics began publishing in 1990 with a digest-sized zine called\u00a0<em><b>Adventure Strip Digest<\/b><\/em>. Four issues of the zine were published before the series was re-launched in 1994 <span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">as a direct-sales<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">full-size independent comic-book series under the same title. After four issues, the title was relaunched in October 2000 as\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 16px; color: var( --e-global-color-text );\"><em>Rob Hanes Adventures.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"16px\"}}} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The series also has been collected in trade paperback: the\u00a0<strong><em>Rob Hanes Archives<\/em><\/strong>, funded by a Xeric Foundation grant, compiled the early zine stories of the series in 1996; in 2010,\u00a0<em><strong>Rob Hanes Adventures, Vol. 0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0remastered and collected issues 1 to 4 of<em><strong>\u00a0Adventure Strip Digest<\/strong><\/em>. Volumes 1 and 2 collect the current series through issue 8. (See our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcgcomics.com\/catalog.html\">online store<\/a>\u00a0for details about these titles.) The series is also available digitally on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?i=digital-text&amp;rh=p_27%3ARandy+Reynaldo&amp;s=relevancerank&amp;text=Randy+Reynaldo&amp;ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Kindle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"16px\"}}} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\">For more information, see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcgcomics.com\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1596\">Complete History of WCG<\/a>\u00a0or check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcgcomics.com\/about\/checklist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"702\">WCG Comics Checklist<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:separator --><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- \/wp:separator --><!-- wp:heading --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:separator --><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} --><\/p>\n<h4>Additional Profile Links<\/h4>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"16px\"}}} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/artists\/r\/reynaldo_randy.htm\">Randy Reynaldo&#8217;s Lambiek Comiclopedia profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"16px\"}}} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comics.org\/creator\/10806\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Randy Reynaldo&#8217;s Grand Comics Database (GCD) biography<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"16px\"}}} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/author\/randy.reynaldo\">Randy Reynaldo&#8217;s Amazon profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"16px\"}}} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bailsprojects.com\/bio.aspx?Name=REYNALDO%2c+RANDY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Randy Reynaldo&#8217;s profile in Bail&#8217;s Who&#8217;s Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics.ha.com\/c\/search-results.zx?N=52+790+231&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntt=randy+reynaldo&amp;limitTo=all&amp;ic3=ViewItem-Auction-Archive-BrowseNewSearch-A-K-071316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Randy Reynaldo&#8217;s art pieces available at Heritage Auctions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WCG Comics began publishing in 1990 with a digest-sized zine called\u00a0Adventure Strip Digest. 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