Celso L. "Sonny" Trinidad (July 28, 1934 – November 23, 2009)[1] was a Filipino comics artist who worked in the Filipino and American comic book industries. In the U.S., he is mostly known for his work for Marvel Comics in the mid–1970s.
Career
Trinidad began his professional career as an assistant for the "Dean of Philippine comics," Francisco Coching, and Trinidad's style bore a similarity to Choching's. Trinidad's first professional credits included illustrating novelist Marcial Buanno’s Guido Mortal and Arkong Bato in the late 1960s.[2]
Trinidad co-created the Filipino superheroes El Gato (with writer Mike Tan)[3] and Inday sa Balitaw (with writer Pablo S. Gomez).
Along with a number of other Filipino comics creators in the 1970s, Trinidad found work in the American comics industry, initially for