WHILCE PORTACIO

'Whilce Portacio' is a Filipino-American comic book artist. Portacio started out as an inker at Marvel Comics in 1985. Over time, he was given assignments as a penciller as well. Portacio became noted for his work on such titles as ''The Punisher'', ''X-Factor'', and the ''Uncanny X-Men''. However, in 1992, Portacio left Marvel to co-found Image Comics with six other high-profile artists. But, Portacio quickly withdrew from his partnership in this enterprise due to his sister's bout with lupus, eventually publishing his title ''Wetworks'' through Jim Lee's Wildstorm imprint in 1994. Other notable series that Portacio has worked on include ''Stone'' and Marvel's controversial Heroes Reborn storyline within ''Iron Man''.

In August, 2000, Whilce fell into a diabetic coma as a result of a failing pancreas. He woke up a week later, thirty pounds lighter, and unable to walk, let alone stand or even draw. It was six months before he was able to pick up a pencil and draw. It would be a year before he was able to draw any semblance of his previous artistry. According to his blog, "My mind could see what I wanted to draw but my hand couldn't accomplish it."^[1]
In 2006, Portacio returned to his artistic duties at Wildstorm on ''Wetworks vol.2'', which was being written by Mike Carey. Unfortunately, Portacio's reputation for being unable to maintain a steady work schedule caught up with him again as Wetworks vol. 2 suffered from numerous delays and Portacio ended up leaving the book with issue #4. He also began art duties on the new monthly DC Comics series ''Batman Confidential''.

Contents

Selected works

External links

References

Selected works

★ New Mutants vol. 1 #43 (inker)

External links

★ Whilce's Blog on Wetworks: The Creative Process

★ Whilce Portacio on Marvel.com

References

1. Wetworks:The Creative Process Whilce Portacio