Filipino Comics Art Fridays | Domy Gutierrez

Every Friday, I take a look at the work of one of the almost 200 Filipino artists who illustrated horror, sword-and-sorcery/fantasy, western, sci-fi, and war comics for American publishers during the 1970s and early 1980s. The “Filipino Wave,” as it came to be called, saw the likes of Nestor Redondo, Alfredo Alcala, Alex Niño, Tony DeZuniga, Rudy Nebres, Ernie Chan, and many others pencil and/or ink scores of issues for DC, Marvel, Warren, and other outfits, helping define the look of an era.

This week’s featured artist is Domy Gutierrez.

Domy Gutierrez worked primarily as a spot illustrator in the Philippines through the 1970s, although he did contribute to a number of local, Tagalog-language comics, most prominent of which was a graphic novel adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo. 

Incidentally, Gutierrez’s first American comics work was also an adaptation of a literary classic: working alongside compatriot artist Angel Trinidad, he illustrated Pendulum Press’s graphic novel version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables, published in 1977.

It would be almost three years before Gutierrez’s second (and final) American comics work would see print, a four-page pencil-and-ink job DC Comics’ Ghosts #85 (February 1980):

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