Gabriel Rodríguez Pérez (born May 26, 1974) is a Chilean

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book artist and

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, known for his work on the horror series ''

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''. He also did the artwork for

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's edition of Joe Hill's ''

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''.

Early life

Rodríguez was born in

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Career

Before starting a career as comic artist, he studied

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at the

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where he got his degree and also a

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. Due to the small scale of the comics market in Chile, Rodríguez had to work part-time as architect while drawing comics for art's sake or some extra income. His first commission was a set of illustrations for ''Mitos y Leyendas'' (Myths and Legends), a collectible cards game by SALO Publishing. Rodríguez spent 4 years working for them until he got a call from the US producers of the ''CSI'' TV series and

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crew, to make a comic version of the series. From then on he was able to work full-time as a comic artist. Rodriguez was subsequently introduced to writer Joe Hill, author and son of

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. Together they spawned the ''Locke & Key'' series, which earned Rodríguez his first

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nomination. After that, Rodríguez was commissioned by

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to draw '' Adventures of Superman'' (2013) and IDW's ''Little Nemo, Return to Slumberland'', which earned him another Eisner Award nomination. In April 2022, Rodriguez was reported among the more than three dozen comics creators who contributed to

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's benefit anthology book, ''Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds'', a project spearheaded by

Special Projects Editor

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, whose profits would be donated to relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees resulting from the February

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. Rodriguez teamed up with writer

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to produce an original story with new characters created specifically for the anthology.

Awards

Rodríguez was nominated for Best Penciller/Inker for the 2011

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for his work on ''Locke & Key''. In addition, ''Locke & Key'' was nominated for "Best Continuing Series" and "Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)" for ''Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom'' #1. In April 2015, his and fellow Chilean artist Nelson Daniel's work
''Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland''
(IDW) was nominated for the

, winning Best Limited Series in July 2015. He and Nelson Daniel were awarded the Grand Prize at th
FIC Santiago
2016 for “Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland”. He also won the "Best Chilean Comic Artist" Award at the FIC Santiago 2013.

References

External links

Official website

DeviantArt page

IDW page for ''Little Nemo in Slumberland''

2015 Eisner Award Nominations
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