Whilce Portacio
Whilce Portacio
Born
Nationality	Filipino-American
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker

Whilce Portacio was born in Sangley Point, Cavite City, Philippines on July 8, 1963. He is known today as 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. Image File history File links Whilce_portacio. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The Filipino American (Fil-Am for short) community is the largest Asian American group in the United States and the largest Southeast Asian American group. ... Comic Book Artist is an American magazine primarily devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published between the 1960s and the present-day. ... The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional comic book, or graphic novel. ... This article is about the comic book company. ... A penciller (or penciler) is one of a number of artists working within the comic industry. ... This article is about the Marvel Comics character. ... X-Factor is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics. ... For the second comic book series starring the X-Men, see X-Men (vol. ... Image Comics is an American comic book publisher. ... // Wolf (latin). ... Wetworks is a comic book series created by comic book artist Whilce Portacio and writer Brandon Choi. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm or Wildstorm, is a publishing imprint and studio of American comic book publisher DC Comics. ... Heroes Reborn was an event in which Marvel Comics temporarily outsourced the production of several of its most famous comic books to the studios of its popular former employees Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld. ... For the upcoming film and video game based on the superhero, see Iron Man (film) and Iron Man (video game). ...

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] Diabetic coma is a medical emergency in which a person with diabetes mellitus is comatose (unconscious) because of one of three acute complications of diabetes: Severe diabetic hypoglycemia Advanced diabetic ketoacidosis advanced enough to result in unconsciousness from a combination of severe hyperglycemia, dehydration and shock, and exhaustion Hyperosmolar nonketotic... The pancreas is a gland organ in the digestive and endocrine systems of vertebrates. ...

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 #6, but he continues to illustrate cover art monthly since leaving as the book's interior artist.^{[citation needed]} He also began art duties on the new monthly DC Comics series Batman Confidential. Mike Carey is the writer of the Eisner Award nominated Lucifer and Hellblazer, comic book titles published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. ... DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... Batman Confidential is a monthly comic book series from DC Comics which debuted its first issue on December 6, 2006. ...

Selected works

• New Mutants vol. 1 #43 (inker)
• Wetworks Vol. 2 #1-6 (pencils); 1-Present as cover artist

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External links

• Whilce's Blog on Wetworks: The Creative Process
• Whilce Portacio on Marvel.com

References