Cal Sobrepeña

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Felipe Sobrepeña Calusa
Born	May 1, 1940 Pangasinan, Commonwealth of the Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Awards	Best Komiks Illustrator

Felipe Sobrepeña Calusa (born May 1, 1940, in Pangasinan, Philippines) is a Filipino comics artist.^[1]

Early life[]

Sobrepeña was born in 1940 in Pangasinan, the only child of Rufino Calusa and Teofila Sobrepeña. His mother died during World War II when he was a year old and his father was always working in the woods because of the war, so he was left in the care of aunts and relatives.

After the war, his father began a job as a messenger at a post office in Manila, and took him to live there. Sobrepeña spent most of his teenage life at the in Kamuning, Quezon City. After high school, he took up Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. While in college, he also worked as an illustrator at a local bookstore, providing the drawings for textbooks used in elementary and high schools.

Comic art[]

After graduating from college, he got a small job at a local publishing company, drawing the characters of Francisco Balagtas' novel Florante at Laura. He then applied as an illustrator at several comic book publishers including Graphic Arts Services, Inc. (GASI), Atlas Publication, Islas Filipinas Publishing Company and ACE Publication, working in the industry for many years. He was given an award for "Best Komiks Illustrator" for his illustrations on the cover of Lovelife Komiks.

Among his works were Karpov, Darmo Kandado, Vertud and Children's Bible sa Wikang Filipino.

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