Ric Estrada was a Cuban-American penciler of comic books for companies including the major American publisher DC Comics. He also worked in comic strips, political cartoons, advertising, storyboarding, and commercial illustration

Ric Estrada was born in Havana, Cuba, and lived in Luyano, a suburb of Havana. He made his first professional sale, an illustration used on the cover of the Cuban magazine Bohemia, at the age of 13. Estrada attended the University of Havana concurrent with Fidel Castro, whom he passed in the halls but never met. Through his uncle, Sergio Carbo, Estrada met writer Ernest Hemingway; the two men facilitated Estrada's move to New York City in 1947 to further his artistic studies and...