Javier Rodríguez

Javier Rodríguez may refer to:

See also

Javier Rodríguez (sport shooter)

Javier Rodríguez Segovia (born 22 December, 1964 in Saltillo, Coahuila) is a Mexican sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 24th place.

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Javier Rodríguez (artist)

Javier Rodríguez is a Spanish comic book artist working primarily as a colourist for the American market. Among his most notable works are Batgirl: Year One, Daredevil and The Amazing Spider-Man.

Career

While studying at the University of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Rodríguez and a group of friends (one of whom was Germán García of Tess Tinieblas, X-Men and Superman fame) started a comics fanzine called Froilán. In 1996, he pencils Anselmo Ensombras, a comic about the history of Spanish cinema for the 34th Gijón International Film Festival, and self-publishes the first issue of Love Gun, a futuristic four-issue miniseries about a group of friends with heavy social criticism on such issues as unemployment and economic independence of young people (the tagline of the comic was "in the XXI century, unemployment is still a problem..."). Only three issues were published, leaving the story unfinished, which still was enough to attract attention to the young cartoonist from the critics and the audience. In 1998, the Madrid publisher Under Cómic relaunched Love Gun with a new #1 and a new story. Ígor Medio helped Rodríguez with scripting and inking for the second volume. Although the title suffered from erratic publication and stopped production after four issues, leaving the story unfinished again, the series gained enough attention for the publisher to release some merchandise (posters, t-shirts, postcards), something absolutely unheard of in the independent Spanish comic book market. In 1999, Rodríguez was nominated for the "Best Newcomer" at the Salón del Cómic de Barcelona (Barcelona Comic Fair).