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Our special series about our esteemed judges for The Art of Xero Error Competition continues with Tony DeZuniga. While we get ready to announce the winners for the competition, let us acquaint you with these fantastic and notable personalities who so graciously accepted to take time out of their busy schedules to support our project.

Tony DeZuniga was born in the Philippines in 1941. An avid comics reader as a child, Tony’s favorites included Jack Kirby and Alex Toth, and he loved Alex Raymond’s Rip Kirby and Flash Gordon. His love for comics inspired him to do comics on his own. He began his career as a letterer when he was 16 for a weekly magazine where he met Alfredo Alcala and Nestor Redondo, artists who he counts as those who have inspired and encouraged him, and became his friends. Tony moved to the US in 1962 to study an advanced course in Graphic Design and went back home to the Philippines to work in the advertising industry while at the same time drawing for comics like Hiwaga Komiks and Caravana Klasiks, and Romansa Komiks.

At the end of the 60’s Tony moved back to New York and met with DC Editor Joe Orlando and immediately he was given an assignment inking Ric Estrada on a romance story for Girl’s Love Stories #153. His first story he pencilled and inked on his own was most likely a Dr. Thirteen story for Phantom Stranger, published in April, 1971, and work soon followed regularly. Tony went on to become a regular contributor at DC, co-creating with writer John Albano he long-running Western character Jonah Hex, and with Sheldon Mayer the first Black Orchid. Tony then paved the way for other Filipino comics artists to enter the US industry when he convinced DC Editor in Chief Carmine Infantino and Joe Orlando to visit the Philippines in 1971. Artists like Alex Niño, Alfredo Alcala, Nestor Redondo, Fred Carrillo. Vicatan, Gerry Talaoc and so many more found a lot of work on DC’s stable of Mystery and War titles as a result.

Retired, Tony spends his time painting in oil, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal and entering competitions. He is a video game conceptual designer, spending a decade with the U.S. and Japan divisions of Sega. He has also done freelance work for McGraw Hill and the Scholastic Corporation, and for TSR’s Dungeons & Dragons game. He also does many portrait commissions and teaches portrait, drawing and a how to drawsuperheroes class at the Lodi Arts Commission.