Jesse Santos

Jesse Santos (June 24, 1928 – April 27, 2013) was a Filipino comics artist. He was best known as the co-creator of Dagar the Invincible and Tragg and the Sky Gods with writer Donald F. Glut.

Biography Jesse Santos was born in Teresa, Rizal, the Philippines, and began drawing professionally at the age of 14. One of his artistic influences was Francisco Coching. His other influences include Hal Foster, Burne Hogarth, Jack Kirby, Alex Raymond, and Tony Velasquez.

Santos began his career in the Komiks industry by drawing the "Kidlat" feature in Halakhak Komiks in 1946.

His earliest work in the U.S. is inking Jack Sparling's penciled artwork in The Microbots #1 (Dec. 1971). He became the artist on the Brothers of the Spear series in 1972 and worked with writer Gaylord DuBois on the first 12 issues. and Tragg and the Sky Gods. They also collaborated on The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor. Santos received an offer from Marvel Comics to work on their Conan the Barbarian series, but turned it down.

In the 1980s, Santos left the comics industry and became involved in advertising Santos often performed as a lounge singer and self-produced an album of standard love ballads.