Education
Rhode Montijo received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1996.
Rhode Montijo received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1996.
Thanks to a grant from the Xeric Foundation, Montijo was able to release his comic Pablo"s Inferno to a wider audience. He has also worked for many Mondo Media shows like Thugs on Film and The God & Devil Show. lieutenant was while working on Mondo that he met Kenn Navarro and Aubrey Ankrum, and created the popular dark humored flash cartoon series, Happy Tree Friends.
Rhode worked as writer, director and art director, and also did the voices of Lumpy and Splendid.
After five years working on the show, he officially left Happy Tree Friends in 2005 to focus more on his comic-book works and to rustle buffalo in Brazil. David Winn replaced him as the voices Lumpy and Splendid.
Montijo enjoys working on various multimedia projects and has had an expressed interest in creating children"s books which lead to the creation of the acclaimed Cloud Boy. T-t-tartamudo (mini comic book) (Abismo, 2010)
The Halloween Kid (Simon & Schuster, 2010, )
Skeletown (preview book) (Abismo, 2011)
Lucky Luis Illustrator (Putnam, 2012, )
Super Grammar Illustrator (Scholastic, 2012, )
The Gumazing Gum Girl! (Chapter Book Series) (Disney-Hyperion, 2013 )
The Gumazing Gum Girl! v1: Chews Your Destiny (128 pages, Disney-Hyperion, 2013, )
The Gumazing Gum Girl v2: Gum Luck (128 pages, Disney-Hyperion, 2015, ) -In Production.