Cartoonist Randy Reynaldo is the artist-writer-creator of Rob Hanes Adventures, a contemporary comic book globetrotting action-adventure series in the tradition the great soldier-of-fortune comic strips of the 1930s and ‘40s, but set in the modern-day.
In 2018, Randy was a featured Special Guest at the San Diego Comic-Con where he received a prestigious Inkpot Award for Achievement in Comic Arts. (Prominent past recipients include Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas.)
Rob Hanes Adventures is an ongoing independent comic book published under Randy’s WCG Comics imprint. Randy 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 under the WCG Comics imprint 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.
Two trade paperbacks that collect the early stories predating the current series have been published: 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 a pinup in Wolff & Byrd #7 (Exhibit A Press).
Randy’s influences include 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. 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 The Beat, Bleeding Cool, First Comics News, Comic Book Resources, Newsarama and wired.com He also was interviewed on “Talk Audio Soup,” a public radio show devoted to popular culture.
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 The Xeric grant made possible the Rob Hanes Archives, a trade paperback of early and previously unpublished work from the series.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), and has served as vice president and treasurer of the organization.
Born and raised in New York City, Randy currently resides 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 interviews, reviews and other coverage may be found at our Reviews and Coverage page.
Though Randy’s work first appeared under the WCG Comics banner in zine format in 1991, the year 1994 is designated as the formal founding of the company when the series debuted as a full sized comic book in the direct sales market, under the title Adventure Strip Digest. The original early zine stories were collected in the trade paperback, the Rob Hanes Archives (1996), funded by a Xeric Foundation grant. A second trade paperback, the Rob Hanes Adventures, Vol. 0, remastered and collected issues 1 to 4 of Adventure Strip Digest. To date, volumes 1 through 3 collect the current series through issue 12. (See our online store for details about these titles.) The series is also available digitally.
For more information, see the Complete History of WCG or check out the WCG Comics Checklist!