Danny Bulanadi, R.I.P.

Sorry to hear of the passing of Danny Bulanadi, a fine comic book illustrator who was born in 1946 in Manila, Philippines. He broke into the field as many did — as an assistant for Tony deZuñiga working for all the top-selling "komiks" in the Philippines until he relocated to the U.S. in 1975. DC and Marvel put him to work, primarily as an inker but I employed him as a penciler and inker for some foreign Tarzan comics I edited around the time he got here and I was very happy to let him do the entire job. His work was quite good and it was always on time.

In 1988, he moved to Southern California and worked a lot as a storyboard and designer, primarily for Hanna-Barbera (and especially on Jonny Quest) and for Marvel Productions (especially on The Transformers) and a great many videogames. He did just about everything a comic book artist can do and even dabbled in painting nature and old west scenes. The industry could use more people who are that versatile and that dependable.