Rafael Kayanan’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American comic book artist
Is Artist 
Cartoonist 
Comics artist 
Penciller 
From United States of America 
Philippines 
Type Arts 
Humor 
Gender male
Birth 13 September 1962, Manila, Metro Manila, Luzon, Philippines
Age: 57 years
Star sign Virgo

Rafael Kayanan is a Filipino-born naturalised American comics artist and Filipino martial arts master in the Sayoc Kali system.

Biography

Comics

Rafael Kayanan stated in a 2007 interview that he “grew up with Filipino Komiks masters like Alcala, Coching, and Redondo mixed in with Kirby, Sy Barry’s The Phantom, Kubert’s Tarzan, and Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant. From there I discovered Barry Windsor-Smith, Starlin, Adams, Wrightson, and Gulacy in the 70’s. I copied and then drew my own stories on the backs of old xeroxes my mom would bring home from work.”

He has illustrated for every major comic book publisher. His most notable work has been on Marvel Comics’ Conan the Adventurer, Acclaim Comics’ Turok, and DC Comics’ Firestorm and America vs. the Justice Society. He also inked the Eisner Award-nominated series Chiaroscuro: The Life and Times of Leonardo Da Vinci for Vertigo.

Kayanan has illustrated concept designs for comic book, film and game companies. During the late 1990s, he was the creator and art director for Cross Plains Comics featuring the pulp magazine characters created by Robert E. Howard. Kayanan developed concept designs for Nintendo’s Turok: Dinosaur Hunter II video game. He currently continues to do work for Topps Cards on licenses such as Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings.

Other titles he has worked on include The Amazing Spider-Man, Star Wars, Magic: The Gathering, and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight.

Kayanan’s art is known for its rapid tempo, storytelling pace and layered depth. Much thought is evident in the choreography of dynamic action on every page. His slick and precise usage of shadows to define anatomy and emotion is as proficient as any of the longtime masters of the craft.

Additional comic book work can be found in Dark Horse Comics’ Conan #39, Annihilation, and fantasy novelist R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt, Worlds of Dungeons & Dragons from Devil’s Due Publishing.

During his collaboration with writer Gerry Conway on DC’s The Fury of Firestorm series in 1984, Kayanan co-created two characters which have appeared in live-action media in the 2010s. The supporting character Felicity Smoak on The CW television series Arrow debuted in The Fury of Firestorm #23 (May 1984). The supervillain Slipknot first appeared in The Fury of Firestorm #28 (October 1984) and appeared in the Suicide Squad film in 2016.

Film and television

Kayanan is a Master-level edged weapons (knife, sword, tomahawk) expert and instructor in Sayoc Kali. This rare combination of a visual and martial artist, has led to projects which utilize both skills to illustrate fight storyboards for film and TV. Kayanan choreographed and trained the actors, in William Friedkin’s The Hunted starring Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones. He also trained actor Sam Rockwell for director George Clooney’s film, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Kayanan was a development artist, fight trainer and weapons consultant for Paramount Pictures adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars. His art was used for the CBS tv show NCIS: Los Angeles. Kayanan designed fights for the main cast of LL Cool J, Chris O’ Donnell, Daniela Ruah and Eric Christian Olsen, as well as special guest stars Danny Trejo, Ernie Reyes Jr., and Daniel Henney. Kayanan was the technical advisor for the close quarter fights inside the airplane of the film Non-Stop starring Liam Neeson.

Rafael Kayanan was a set illustrator and story board artist for the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway show, directed by Julie Taymor with music created by Bono and the Edge.

Kayanan worked on concept illustration for the films Immortals. and Mirror, Mirror both directed by Tarsem Singh from Relativity Media, and the related graphic novel anthology Immortals: Gods and Heroes published by Archaia.

Other projects include the Discovery TV show Lone Target, also known internationally as Manhunt, starring former Navy SEAL Joel Lambert where the Kayanan designed RnD Hawk, Bontoc and Madumi Sayoc Kali-Daniel Winkler knives were prominently featured.

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