Kenneth Rocafort

Kenneth Rocafort
Born Mayagüez, Puerto Rico [1]
Nationality Puerto Rican
Area(s) penciller, inker, colorist
Notable works
 Madame Mirage
Superman
Astonishing Tales: Wolverine/Punisher
Red Hood and the Outlaws
Teen Titans
The Ultimates

Kenneth Rocafort (age 31 in 2014)[2] is a Puerto Rican illustrator of comic books, known for his work on titles including Superman, Red Hood and the Outlaws, Astonishing Tales: Wolverine/Punisher, Teen Titans, and The Ultimates.

Career

Cover of Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 by Kenneth Rocafort

Kenneth Rocafort has worked in various fields of the entertainment industry such as theatre, video game box art, storyboard for advertisement, comics, magazine, card game and toy box art. He was in charge of set design and preparation of the stage for diverse theatrical works inside and outside the University of Puerto Rico and he sometimes also designed the wardrobe. In animation field, he has worked in the area of storyboard and character design. He illustrated the toy boxes for G.I. Joe vehicles (R.O.C.C. and R.H.I.N.O.) for Hasbro and he also drew the box-cover for the PS2 video game Samurai Western.[3]

He first started in comics in 2006, with Top Cow, doing a fill-in issue of the Marc Silvestri-illustrated Hunter-Killer series, before moving on to Paul Dini's Madame Mirage series.[1]

In 2011, Rocafort began work with DC comics. From 2011 to 2012, he was the artist on DC's new Red Hood and the Outlaws.

In 2012, he worked on Superman (post New 52) with writing by Scott Lobdell.[4]

From 2014 to 2015, he worked on the new Teen Titans series (being relaunched with a new issue 1), written by Will Pfeifer.[5] Some promotional art for the series produced some debate over sexism in comics.[6]

In 2015, he began work on the All-New All-Different Marvel series, Ultimates, with writer Al Ewing.

His father and older brother both work as graphic designers.[3]

Bibliography

DC

Marvel

Top Cow

Other work

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Kenneth Rocafort". topcow.com. 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Kenneth Rocafort". wizardworld.com. 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  3. 1 2 Arrant, Chris (10 September 2008). "Talking to Artist Kenneth Rocafort". Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  4. ↑ Young, Bryan (6 November 2012). "An Interview With Superman's New Writer!". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Yehl, Joshua (8 April 2014). "DC Comics Will Relaunch Teen Titans in July". ign.com. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  6. ↑ Asselin, Janelle (11 April 2014). "Anatomy of a Bad Cover: DC's New "Teen Titans" #1". Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  7. ↑ Grey, Melissa (6 February 2013). "Looking for love in almost all the wrong places". uk.ign.com. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  8. ↑ Loud, Stewart (6 February 2012). "MARVEL'S ASTONISHING TALES #1-6 review". punishercosplayandcomics.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  9. ↑ "The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators: Astonishing Tales(II)". 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
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