Pol Medina, Jr.
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Apolonio "Pol" Medina Jr. (born April 6, 1960) is a Filipino cartoonist best known for creating Pugad Baboy, a black-and-white comic strip first published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on May 18, 1988.
Pol Medina graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1983 with a degree in architecture. In 1985, a year after securing his professional license, he went to Iraq at the height of the Iran-Iraq War to work for an Italian construction company. It was at this juncture that he experienced "the most maddening"[1] two years of his life.
In 1986, he started scripting and drawing characters for a new cartoon about a community of fatsos and a dog named Polgas. In 1987, he worked as an architect for a firm in San Juan, Metro Manila.
In September 1992, he co-founded Pugad Baboy, Inc. with seven other people. The company adopted Ad Astra Per Aspera for its motto, inspired by Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Three years later, the company folded when Pol Medina left in order pursue a career in the advertising industry.
To date, Pol Medina is married to Susan, and has three children: Maia Cecilia, Eladio Jose and Pablo Jose.
[edit] External link
- PMJunior - Pol Medina's Official Website
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