Rhode Montijo
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Rhode Montijo | |
Birth name | Rhode Montijo |
Born | |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Writer Penciller Inker |
Notable works | Pablo's Inferno Cloud Boy Happy Tree Friends (co-creator) |
Rhode Montijo is an American independent comic-book artist best known as the creator of Pablo's Inferno and co-creator of the flash cartoon Happy Tree Friends.
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Rhode Montijo received his BFA in Illustration from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1996. Thanks to a grant from the Xeric Foundation, Rhode Montijo was able to release his comic 'Pablo's Inferno' to a wider audience. While his love lies in working on his self-published comic.
He has also worked for many Mondo Media shows like Thugs on Film and The God & Devil Show. It was while working on Mondo when he meet Kenn Navarro and Aubrey Ankrum and created the popular dark humored flash cartoon series, Happy Tree Friends. In the Rhode worked as writer, director and art director and also did the voices of Lumpy and Splendid. After five years working on the show, he officially left Happy Tree Friends in 2005 to focus more on his comic-book works. David Winn replaced him as the voices Lumpy and Splendid. According to writer Warren Graff he still remains friends with the whole HTF team.
Montijo enjoys working on various multi-media projects and has had an expressed interest in creating children's books which lead to the creation of the acclaimed "Cloud Boy".
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