Roger Cruz

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Roger Cruz (born Rogério da Cruz Kuroda, February 22, 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian comic book artist .

He started his professional career as a letterer for Editora Abril, the Brazilian publishing house, for whom he lettered many Portuguese translations of American comics; then worked as a writer and art assistant for Mil Perigos, a short-lived black and white comics magazine.

When Art & Comics Studio first introduced Brazilian artists to the American comic book market, he had his opportunity to work as an artist for Marvel Comics on the titles Ghost Rider, Hulk, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men Alpha, X-Patrol, Generation X, X-Calibre, X-Factor, X-Man, Avengers: Timeslide and Silver Surfer. He also worked for DC Comics, where he took part in one issue of the comic book Batman Chronicles.

At the end 1990s he took a break from working on comic books and returned to his country, where he became one of the founders and partners of an art studio/school in Brazil called Fábrica de Quadrinhos (Comic Book Factory).

He also worked as a storyboard designer for advertising agencies, a character designer for TV shows, and an art teacher, and gave a 2 year course of lectures and workshops in universities.

Still being a Fábrica de Quadrinhos partner, he returned to work on the American market, contributing to the Marvel titles such as Darkness, Ascension, X-Men, Wolverine and Magneto: Dark Seduction.

In 1999 he gave up his projects in Fábrica de Quadrinhos and turned back to work exclusively with comics.

In 2002, negotiated by Art & Comics Studio, he illustrated issues of Wonder Woman.

Since 2004, he has been working for Marvel once again, as the artist on Amazing Fantasy.

Cruz was a regular on the Genesis Comics "Swipe Of The Week" website around 1999. The site placed two pieces of published work by two different artists side by side, and allowed the users to vote whether they were seeing an homage, a coincidence, or a direct copy. Primarily his work was placed beside the previously printed work of Joe Madureira. Cruz has acknowledged on his website that he learned to draw primarily by copying from other pencillers.