Early work Redondo began his career drawing Filipino
komiks serials, which were written by his brother
Virgilio, including
Mars Ravelo's
Darna series. In 1969 and 1970 Redondo did the four-page serial ”Mga Kasaysayang Buhat sa Bibliya” (“Tales from the Bible”) in each issue of
Superyor Komiks Magasin, which was produced by his company Nestor Redondo Publications. This company launched a program of on-the-job training for young writers and artists. Through the 1970s, Redondo drew dozens of such
supernatural anthology stories for DC titles including
House of Secrets,
The Phantom Stranger,
Secrets of Sinister House,
The Unexpected,
Weird War Tales, and
The Witching Hour. based on the heroine of a
Victorian novel, as well as
Swamp Thing #11–23 (Aug. 1974 – July 1976), and DC's tabloid-sized
one-shot collection of
Bible stories, cover-titled
The Bible but officially titled ''
Limited Collectors' Edition #C-36 (July 1975). Nestor Redondo and his brother Frank Redondo often collaborated and were credited together as the "Redondo Studio", including on the Ragman'' series for DC. '
Rima, the Jungle Girl #6 (Feb.–March 1975). Art by Nestor Redondo. In 1970, Redondo was approached by
Vincent Fago of
Pendulum Press to illustrate stories for that publisher’s new line of comic book adaptations of literary classics. Redondo helped Fago recruit fellow Filipino comics artists, who illustrated almost every comic Pendulum produced. From 1973 to 1979, Redondo illustrated many stories in the
Pendulum Illustrated Classics line, including
Dracula and
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — adaptations which were reprinted by
Marvel Comics three years later as
Marvel Classics Comics. In preparation for the
First International Christian Comics Training Conference in
Tagaytay, the Philippines, in January 1996, Redondo wrote
On Realistic Illustration for his main teaching session, but died before he was able to deliver it personally. == Death ==