Manix Abrera
Manuel Luis "Manix" Lorenzo Abrera is a Filipino comic strip cartoonist best known for ''Kikomachine Komix''
Early life and education
Manuel Luis "Manix" Lorenzo Abrera was born in 1982 in Metro Manila and is the son of comic strips cartoonist Jess Abrera. His mother is Bernadette Abrera, a historian and a dean. The Abrera patriarch made Pinoy Nga and A. Lipin as well as illustrated Nick Joaquin's ' Versus Ibong Adarna.Manix Abrera pursued a fine arts degree at the University of the Philippines Diliman in the late 1990s. To create a separate reputation from his father he joined UP's student publication paper, ''Philippine Collegian''
Career
As part of the Philippine Collegian team, Abrera drew comics. He originally worked with two other fellow fine arts students on a comic strip entitled Garapata Blood. When space for more comics became available on the paper, Abrera started a solo project, which was Kikomachine in 2001.Kikomachine was later published regularly in the Philippine Daily Inquirer The comic strips was also made available in paperback with at least 13 volumes published by 2022.
Abrera is also a comics cover illustrator. He drew the covers for Department of Truth #16 and Monkey Meat #1 for Image Comics. He also illustrated a variant cover for the very first volume of DC Comics' ''Batman: The Knight''