Hello everyone,
It has been a while since I have written anything since I am
always on my drawing board, doing various things for other people, but I had
some time to interview a dear friend of mine, Jose “Nino” Mesarina. Nino, is a
sensational artist, with a very unique art style true to him and his entire
being. To me personally he is a favorite artist of mine, someone that I can
look up too within the Latino community. Time to time I even ask for some sound
advice from Nino, because he always has an amazing insight to how he handles
business, and how he feels about certain things.
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| Nino Mesarina, in the flesh. |
Nino, was born in Chicago ,
on April 23rd, 1971. He used to scribble on the wall as a child,
with crayons. Nino, states that his influences are his father, Climaco G.
Mesarina, Jack Kirby, Charles Shultz, Mort Drucker, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez,
Ernesto Redondo, and many more. Back in the 8th grade he had created
his first comic book company with childhood friend Ralf Ramirez, “M.R. Comics,
which was a short lived venture due to the fact Nino states that Ralf was a
lazy partner and had Nino running around like a chicken doing all the work.
Nino had created properties such as DAR-TEX, TERRIBLE TYRANIUS TED, SUPER
SCROCIOLLA FRANTIC MAN. Many original pages still exist. Nino, even drew for
the High Newspaper called the, “Curie-osity" which eventually got him to
work for the Harold
Washington College JOE COLLEGE
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| Nino's original creation back in 1995. |
During this period he had created another comic
based on his own partner Ralph, called RALPHY-BOY, but had to stop when his
partner found out he had a title character based on his likeness, and threatened
to sue Nino, if he did not pay for his likeness, or to hand over the pages.
Nino bulked at this idea, so stopped working on this comic project and moved
on.
Eventually he would get picked up by Instant Press Comics,
who wanted to publish the Ralphy-Boy comic, but Nino would show him designs to
the ULDM character, and that is when his hero finally premiered under the
umbrella of this publisher.
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| This is a actual costume of the ULDM. Nino, has worn it and done many events for the local libraries and schools as he is a celebrity of his hometown. of Chicago. Nino, has been even known to wear this costume at cons. |
Furthermore, Nino would eventually get work from
the newspaper, called the NITTY GRITTY NEWS, out of Chicago . That job would eventually land him
over at the Chicago Journal. Nino, currently does commissions, pin-ups and
sketch cards for fans.
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| Pages from the next upcoming ULDM issue. |
Nino, has done various covers for a variety of comic
publishers, and companies, and has recently drew, GONDOR, SON OF OLYMPUS,” from
Grubbmaster studios.
Nino, continues to work for varying publishers, and is
always ready to work.
Various works done by Nino.
You can pretty much find him in many cons up and around
the country. You want to know more about Nino, and his work you can find him
over at Facebook here.
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| The ULDM knocking me out during a convention, sometime back. Man when I woke up I saw soapy stars. DON'T DRINK SOAP!! |
Jake Estrada
