Lico Reloj
Comic Book Creator
Published Works
* THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN SCAM (2005-2005) Siklab
* RUMI-NATION (2005-2005) Yehey.com
* THE FIFTY-PESO NINJA (2007-2007) Topak! Magazine
* Illustration for the book The Assault on Reality: A Field Manual for The Strange Psyche
by Domus Kaotica and Marauder Underground
* Art contributor for Philippine-based online occult magazine Mysterium Magazine
Webcomics
* THE FIFTY-PESO NINJA (2006-present)
* SLIMIES (2009-present)
Breaking into Comics
I've been in the independent comic circuit for some time
but I've never considered going pro til recently. Lawrence
Mijares of Siklab magazine hired me to create The Adventures
of Captain Scam, a gag strip about a superhero who has the
superpower to con people with ridiculously extreme ease.
Influences in Comics
I had a lot of influences but the biggest ones were
Pol Medina Jr. (a popular Filipino cartoonist who inspired
me to draw comic strips when I was a child), Shotaro
Ishinomori (for his trademark cartoony manga style),
and Stan Sakai (for his clean, simple yet elegant cartoon
art style and cinematographic paneling in Usagi Yojimbo).
As of now, I hardly use greytones but I make up
for it by adding a lot of cross-hatchings as accents
hence my comics in pure black and white.
Cartoons, anime, fantasy stories, video games,
kung fu comics and martial arts movies and even
eastern philosophies play a big part in their
influences on me.
Hobbies other than comics
cooking, website design, playing the harmonica,
martial arts, meditation, tarot card reading, origami
