About Randy Reynaldo
Cartoonist Randy Reynaldo is the writer, artist and creator of Rob Hanes Adventures, a contemporary comic-book action-adventure series in the tradition of Will Eisner’s Spirit, Roy Crane‘s Buz Sawyer, and Milton Caniff‘s Terry and the Pirates. The series has been described as a “grown-up Jonny Quest,” and compared to Tintin, James Bond, and Indiana Jones.
In 2018, Randy was a featured Special Guest at the San Diego Comic-Con where, as a surprise, he was presented with the prestigious Inkpot Award from Comic-Con International for Achievement in Comic Arts (prominent past recipients of the Inkpot include Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas).
Rob Hanes Adventures is an ongoing independent comic-book series published under Randy’s WCG Comics imprint. Two trade paperback collections of earlier stories predating the current series also have been published to date: the Rob Hanes Archives and Rob Hanes Adventures, Vol. 0. Randy’s work has appeared in several anthologies, including Love in Tights #2 (Slave Labor Graphics), Negative Burn #30 and 39 (Caliber Comics), and Wolff & Byrd #7 (pinup).
Randy’s high-contrast black-and-white art has been compared to master comic-strip storytellers like Milton Caniff and Alex Toth, and earned him extensive coverage and numerous accolades from reviewers and past industry trade publications like the Comic Buyer’s Guide, Wizard, Back Issue, and indy. Randy and Rob Hanes Adventures have been also profiled, reviewed and featured on wired.com, Comic Book Resources, Newsarama. He also was interviewed on “Talk Audio Soup,” a public radio show devoted to popular culture.
WCG Comics officially began publishing in 1990 with a digest-sized zine called Adventure Strip Digest. Four issues of the zine were published before the series was launched in 1994 as a full-size independent comic-book series under the same title. After four issues, the title was relaunched in October 2000 as Rob Hanes Adventures.
In addition to the Inkpot Award, Randy is a 1995 Xeric Foundation award recipient and was a nominee that same year for the Russ Manning Award for Most Promising Newcomer, which is presented in conjunction with the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The Xeric grant made possible the Rob Hanes Archives, a trade paperback of early and previously unpublished work from the series. Randy also is a longtime member of the Southern California-based Cartoon Arts Professional Society (CAPS), for which he has served as vice president and treasurer.
Born and raised in New York City, Randy now resides and works in Southern California with his wife and two children.
Additional Profile Links
Randy Reynaldo’s Lambiek Comiclopedia profile
Randy Reynaldo’s Amazon profile
Randy Reynaldo’s profile in Bail’s Who’s Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999
About WCG Comics
WCG Comics is the publishing imprint and studio name for cartoonist Randy Reynaldo, publisher-writer-artist of the comic-book series Rob Hanes Adventures.
See the Checklist for a full list of Randy’s work. An archive of published interviews is also available.
The series also has been collected in trade paperback format: the Rob Hanes Archives, funded by a Xeric Foundation grant, compiled the early zine stories of the series in 1996; and in 2010, Rob Hanes Adventures, Vol. 0 remastered and collected issues 1 to 4 of Adventure Strip Digest. Volumes 1 and 2 collect the current series through issue 8. (See our online store for details about these titles.) The series is also available digitally on Amazon Kindle.
For more information, see the Complete History of WCG or check out the WCG Comics Checklist!
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