About Randy Reynaldo
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 was presented with the prestigious Inkpot Award from Comic-Con International for Achievements in Comic Art (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 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 paperback collections of the early stories that predate the current series 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 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 wired.com, Comic Book Resources, Newsarama. 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 The Xeric grant made possible the Rob Hanes Archives, a trade paperback of early and previously unpublished work from the series.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), 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 interviews, reviews and other coverage may be found at our Reviews and Coverage page.
Though Randy’s earlies work and zines appeared under the WCG Comics banner as Adventure Strip Digest, 1994 marks the official launch of the imprint when the series became available as a full sized comic book in the direct sales market, under the same title. These early adventures have been collected in trade paperback format: the Rob Hanes Archives (1996), funded by a Xeric Foundation grant, compiled the original zine stories of the series and in 2010; and Rob Hanes Adventures, Vol. 0 which 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!