Roger Cruz

Rogério Cruz Kuroda was born in February 22, 1976, in São Paulo, Brazil, and started to draw very early. At eight years old, he got hooked in comics through an uncle who worked in a newsstand. At first, his interest laid mainly in children's comics, like Richie Rich, Hot Stuff and Mônica. Then he started helping his uncle at the stand (mostly to read comics for free) and found out about superheroes, which became his favorite reading.

During his teen years he had a diversity of jobs: he worked at a McDonald's, a bakery, an advertising company and as letterer for Editora Abril, the publisher responsible for the Marvel and DC reprints in Brazil.

His first jobs for American publishers were inks for part of Innovation Comics' The Executioner and pencils for Continuity Comics' Armor. His first published work, though, was Hyperkind for Marvel. Right after that, he landed the assignment for Uncanny X-Men #315. His success continued through X-Men: Alpha, and he's nowdoing X-Man.

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