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Apolonio "Pol" Medina, Jr. is a Filipino cartoonist best known for creating Pugad Baboy, a black-and-white comic strip first published in the Philippine Daily.
Pugad Baboy is a comic strip created by Filipino cartoonist Apolonio "Pol" Medina, Jr. The strip is about a Manila community of mostly obese people – "fat....
Pol Medina Jr.
Filipino cartoonist (born 1962)
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Pol Medina Jr. at Komiket 2023 | |
| Born | (1960-04-06) April 6, 1960 (age 64) |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Inker, Editor, Publisher, Letterer |
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Apolonio "Pol" Medina Jr. (born April 6, 1960) is a Filipino cartoonist best known for his comic stripPugad Baboy.[1][2]
Biography
Education and early career
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"[3] two years of his life.[1][2]
Pugad Baboy
In 1986, Medina started scripting and drawing characters for a new cartoon about a community of fatsos and a dog named Polgas.
A year later, he worked as an architect