Roberto "The Rob Stuff" Cruz
Creator of The Briathos Chronicles.
Writer of Ecos, and collaborated writing in Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico
A Puerto Rican graphic designer with more than 19 years of experience in the field. Graduated from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon with a concentration in Visual Arts. Having worked in advertising firms such as “De la Cruz & Asociados” and “Flora Communications” he accomplished various highlights in his career such as, designing various of the ring wardrobe for Puerto Rican boxing champ, Miguel Cotto, and the creation of “Crosscoman”, who is the icon for the company Max Chemical, a household product company.
In partnership with his wife, he founded DaMaRoJo Studios. A comic book studio in which he has published various creator-owned comic books. After a year of his first publication, Roberto was hired by DC Comics, as a writer to collaborate on the JLA 80-Page Giant 2011 One-Shot. An exciting opportunity that has added one more achievement in his growing career as an artist and writer within the Pop culture.
After Hurricane Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico way back in 2017, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez produced an Anthology Book titled “Ricanstruction” in which Edgardo paired his creation “La Borinqueña” with various DC Comic Book Heroes. Featuring contributions from writers and artists from the comic book industry like Gail Simone, Greg Pak, Reginald Hudlin, Denys Cowan, Tony Daniel, Ken Lashley, Bill Sienkiewicz, Yanick Paquette, Gabby Rivera, Will Rosado, Jorge Jimenez, Mike Allred, Chris Sotomayor, to Puerto Rican and Latinx celebrities like Rosario Dawson, Ruben Blades, Javier Muñoz, and Sonia Manzano. 100% of the proceeds from this anthology have been channeled for continued work of helping over 3 million Americans living in Puerto Rico, providing solar-powered lamps, food, clothing and so much more.
Roberto was invited to contribute to such an amazing project and wrote a short story in which La Borinqueña restores the National Rainforest of El Yunque with the help of the Super Hero, The Swamp Thing. The story was beautifully illustrated by his friend Francisco Javier Rodriquez.
Roberto also worked as a colorist for a book that collected the works of renowned creator Gerry Conway and his work on the DC’s character Batman.
At the moment Roberto is hard at work on his creator-owned graphic novel “The Briathos Chronicles”
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Ricanstruction
A collaboration with various local artists, and writers with the use of DC Comics characters. Writer of the Verde Luz story.
The Meta Gamers
Book cover Illustrator. The Meta Gamers is about a group of individuals playing a game inside a game. What happens when their worlds start to collide & the games they are playing have more serious consequences than they expected?
Tolath
Ilustrator for the story Death Cheats Life. Tolath is a peculiar story of the Seemingly Ordinary in a horror/sci fi anthology series in the vein of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, and others.
Tales of The Batman
Collaborating as an inker. Conway’s work had a profound effect on the legacy of Batman, with his creations Killer Croc and Jason Todd becoming mainstays in the legend of the Dark Knight.
Self Improvement
While battling supernatural forces The Briathos is mortally wounded. At death’s door he reflects on his life as we discover his origin.
Self Awareness
As the Briathos continue to battle the forces of an multi-dimensional being we take a peak into the past to see how it all began.
Confidence
There was a mighty warrior and General of the great army of the Kingdom of Irinoi. With the aid of his hammer, Makinui, he defended the Kingdom, its people, and his son. But one-day tragedy struck, a hero fell, and the legend was tarnished. Now, Jonah, the general’s son is on a quest to seek justice with the aid of his friends and his guardian, a big warrior-ape that only he can summon.
Life Skills
After the last issue’s event, we now take a look into the past. Follow the life of Aelius, the father of Jonah, as he fights a losing war in the battle of Xiliar.