Biografia

Caparas was the first artist to have a street, situated in Pasig, named in his honor.

CarloJ. Caparas is best known for creating Filipino superheroes and characters through his comic strips, such as Panday, Totoy Bato, Bakekang, Gagambino, and Elias Paniki.

Caparas decided to stop such career in 1987 to concentrate on his family, while seeing that scriptwriting was more profitable than the slow illustrating process.

He is best known for creating such Filipino superheroes and comic book characters as Panday, Bakekang, Totoy Bato, Joaquin Bordado, Kamagong, Kamandag, Elias Paniki, Tasya Fantasya, Gagambino, Pieta and Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Aking Tadyang, among others. He was also known as a director of numerous massacre films such as Kuratong Baleleng and The Cory Quirino Kidnap: NBI Files.

In 2007, in efforts to revive the comics industry, Caparas led writers and illustrators of works which were later published in newly-launched titles; and proposed activities sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. These culminated with the unveiling of his five new komiks in a ceremony, led by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, at the NCCA Building in Intramuros, Manila in July.