Cal Sobrepeña, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cal Sobrepeña

illustrator

Date of Birth: 01-May-1940

Place of Birth: Pangasinan, Luzon, Philippines

Profession: comics artist

Nationality: Philippines

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Felipe Sobrepeña Calusa (born May 1, 1940, in Pangasinan, Philippines) is a Filipino comics artist.He is the only child of Rufino Calusa and Teofila Sobrepeña.
Orphaned early in life, his mother died in World War II when he was just a year old and his father was always working in the woods because of the war.
He was left in the care of aunts and relatives. When the war was over, his father was able to land a job as a messenger at a post office in Manila, and his father took him to live there.
Sobrepeña spent most of his teenage life at the Quezon City High School in Kamuning, Quezon City.
After high school, he took up Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.
While in college, he was moonlighting as an illustrator at a local bookstore, providing the drawings for textbooks used in elementary and high schools.