Rudy Vasquez - Artist

It started with my father bringing home a Spider-Man comic book that was left behind in his classroom. (He’s a junior high teacher) After I read that comic, it was all over. Up until then, my body of work as a 10 year kid was almost exclusively dinosaur related. Now, a whole new world opened up to me and I’ve been drawing comic book influenced material since.

Professionally, I dipped my toe in the pool illustrating self-published books in El Paso, TX, until about 2 years ago I decided to venture outside of this safe city. With the help of the internet I’ve worked on various covers, pin-ups, and designs for smaller outfits on the independent circuit.

In 2006, I had the opportunity to illustrate over 300 sketch cards for the FAMILY GUY trading cards series at InkWorks. I also completed a 3 issue mini-series of a fantasy title called Something Evil at Deadboy Press. In addition, I was signed to do the art chores for an adapted screenplay, titled the FARM that will be an upcoming graphic novel.

2006 also saw the completion of the first anthology from Project IV Publishing that I am proud to be a part of in my hometown of El Paso. I illustrated the zombie tale penned by Justin Jude Carmona, the word-smith responsible for the Hired Gun series. The pinnacle of my work in 2006 has to be the artwork featured in Ape Entertainment’s U.T.F. #2 from Arch Enemy studios. It was an honor to be working alongside Tone Rodriguez an Eisner award nominated artist. The preview featured in U.T.F. is of a book called NADIR created and written by Chet Yeary that should be on the shelves sometime late 2007.

Links-

www.rudyvasquez.deviantart.com