{"id":4370,"date":"2024-06-27T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/?post_type=guest&#038;p=4370"},"modified":"2024-08-03T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T17:29:46","slug":"romano-molenaar","status":"publish","type":"guest","link":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/speaker\/romano-molenaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Romano Molenaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romano Molenaar is a Dutch freelance artist who got his first assignment via LiarComics. After working on the mini series\u00a0<strong>More than Mortal\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Witchfinder\u00a0<\/strong>he got in contact with Brian Pulido from the now defunct Chaos!comics, where he worked on\u00a0<strong>Purgatori<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Lady Death<\/strong>. Meeting Tony Daniel at a comicon in the Netherlands landed his new gig, drawing monsters and gorgeous girls with\u00a0<strong>The Tenth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then Topcow started to show interest and a dream came true when they gave him a \u2018Witchblade\u201d (#61) book! After that he was scheduled for<strong>\u00a0No Honor\u00a0<\/strong>vol.2 which is unfortunately on hold. He then got asked to work on an X-men issue (<strong>X-men unlimited #44<\/strong>). Drawing Wolverine and the X-men crew! His last work was a mini called \u201cCursed\u201d (Egyptian mythologie and zombies) for Topcow and \u201cThe Darkness\u201d Vol 2 #8.<\/p>\n<p>Via Tony Daniel he could participate in a\u00a0<strong>BATMAN ANNUAL<\/strong>(Detective Comics 2011 Annual) which made for his next opportunity, drawing `Birds Of Prey` #13-28 in 2012-2014. On the side he also created many \u2018Critter\u2019-covers for publisher Big Dog Ink.<\/p>\n<p>He continues to be firmly active in the European comic department with titles as\u00a0<strong>STORM<\/strong>, the Roy Thomas-written\u00a0<strong>RED HAIR<\/strong>\u00a0aka\u00a0<strong>CARROT<\/strong>\u00a0as well as the 3-issue\u00a0<strong>J.Rom Force Of Gold<\/strong>, which is a re-telling of a classic European beloved character.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/facts.easyfairs-internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2019\/03\/J-rom-Romano-Molenaar.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6271 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/facts.easyfairs-internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2019\/03\/J-rom-Romano-Molenaar-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/facts.easyfairs-internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2019\/03\/Romano-Molenaar-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6274 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/facts.easyfairs-internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2019\/03\/Romano-Molenaar-1-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/facts.easyfairs-internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2019\/03\/Romano-Molenaar-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6277 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/facts.easyfairs-internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2019\/03\/Romano-Molenaar-7-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/facts.easyfairs-internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2019\/03\/Romano-Molenaar-nieuw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6280 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/facts.easyfairs-internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2019\/03\/Romano-Molenaar-nieuw-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romano Molenaar is one of the most active Dutch artists out there, with series such as <strong>J.Rom: Force of Gold, Batman Annual and X-Men<\/strong> under his belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3337,"template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_company_name":"","_job_title":"","_visit_me":"","_email":"","_linkedin":"","_twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/romano_molenaar","_facebook":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RomanoMolenaarartist","_instagram":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/romanomolenaar\/","_youtube":"","_imdb":"","footnotes":""},"edition":[],"guest_type":[79],"work":[],"class_list":["post-4370","guest","type-guest","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","guest_type-artists"],"_cover_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guest\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guest"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/guest"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guest\/4370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17065,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guest\/4370\/revisions\/17065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"guest_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guest_type?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"work","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}