A man of adventure since birth, TONE RODRIGUEZ spent his formative years exploring the wilds of Southern California. His legendary adventures were cut short one winter morning by a horrific mountain climbing accident in which several of his fellow climbers were lost forever in what can only be called the worst case of stupidity in Magic Kingdom history. Translation: Tone and his crew once made a daring New Year's Day attempt to scale the northern face of Space Mountain... Sadly, on this particular day our heroes found themselves too hung-over to outrun local Anaheim law enforcement.

For the sake of self preservation Tone has fallen back on his second love: art.  He started with 1999's, VIOLENT MESSIAHS for IMAGE COMICS. A book for which he was nominated for the Eisner's RUSS MANNING AWARD (that means he didn't win it...) He followed it up the next year with the sequel, VIOLENT MESSIAHS: LAMENTING PAIN.

JOHN CARPENTER'S SNAKE PLISSKEN CHRONICLES followed, as well as a job on the SIMPSONS annual adventure that is the TREE HOUSE OF HORROR, written by KISS front man GENE SIMMONS. Next up was The COVENANT, a graphic novel for TOP COW which was developed into a major motion picture by 20th Century FOX.

Tone was the artist behind SHOWTIME'S DEXTER'S popular DARK DEFENDER. Not only did he design Dexter Morgan's comic book alter ego, he also appeared along side it in the season 2 episode, "Dark Defender".

Tone's other recent comic book projects include U.T.F.(UNDEAD TASK FORCE) for APE Ent., as well as URBAN MONSTERS and TYRESE GIBSON'S MAYHEM! for Image Comics. 

Up next for Tone  -- drawing more SIMPSONS comics for BONGO and collaborating with BILL MORRISON and GO-GO'S front-woman JANE WIEDLIN on JANE WIEDLIN's LADY ROBOTIKA.  First though, he is handling art chores on the re-launch of JIM VALENTINO'S SHADOWHAWK, Image Comics' original back breaker! Written by Dan Wickline, 2010's SHADOWHAWK RESURRECTION spins out of the pages of the smash hit IMAGE UNITED mini-series.