LIFE
. (Photo taken in 2006) MIRASOL BY MIRASOL ARNALDO MIRASOL was born on June 25, 1956 in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. He took up Fine Arts, major in Painting at the University of Santo Tomas and the University of the East. Mirasol began working as a professional artist in 1981, when he was hired as editorial cartoonist for the newspaper People's Journal Tonight. In 1987, he applied and was hired for the same job in Joe Burgos' We Forum Publications. In between his cartooning stints, Mirasol worked as gallery assistant at the Galeria de las Islas, and was a textbook illustrator from 1988 to 2000 In 1996, Mirasol showed his portfolio to Reni Roxas and Marc Singer, publishers of Tahanan Books for Young Readers. Being especially impressed by the series of cover art he did for Phoenix Publishing House, Reni and Marc commissioned Mirasol to do the illustrations for their collaborative book "First Around the Globe: The Story of Enrique". Mirasol went on to illustrate four mor...