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About Manuel Rivas |
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In 2002
I decided it was a good idea to become an cartoonist. I had been working in the
Screenprinting industry as an artist since 1985, but I've always liked to draw
cartoons. So I went and checked out a lot of books about cartooning at the Public
Library and started studying and practicing. My first cartoons were one-panel gags
and they were really bad. As time passed, I gained more control over the pencil
and I improved my joke-writing skills, but I lost interest in one-panel gags.
The idea of a comic strip about a cartoon character that interacts with the cartoonist had been in the back of my mind all the time but it became stronger and stronger. Originally, I wanted to translate many of my own job's experiences to the strip's environment; but one day I sat down and shaped the strip and the characters personalities until it became more or less what it is today. |
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I am originally from the Dominican Republic, and I lived there for 35 years before moving to Florida with my family in 2001. As a kid I didn't do much cartooning. I remember when I was ten or eleven that I used to meet with a friend during recess at school to draw a strip that combined Spiderman and the Six Million Dollar Man. Both were very popular in the mid-seventies down there. After that I didn't really have a strong interest in cartooning until 2002. I live in Merritt Island, on the Space Coast in Central Florida with my wife Josefina, my daughter Sara and my son Manuel Jr. I'm the computer artist at Channell Glass, a glass art shop here in Merritt Island. I hope you enjoy reading Leu and Yar as much as I enjoy creating it. |
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