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Robert Saenz is an American music artist and publisher, comic book artist and publisher, licensed artist, video game artist and publisher. Born in Lakewood, CA and raised in various Los Angeles County suburbs Robert's created countless pieces of original art, songs, licensed art and fan-art pieces, etc., published under various sub-brands all of which operate via the parent company The Imagination of Robert Saenz.

Origin
A career that began in 1988 when he won the Dandy Doodles Junior Art Contest for the Los Angeles Times at age 10 in 1988. Over the next decade he spent his time developing his art skills in poetry and drawing through self eduction, observations and public school art classes where the focus continued to be fan art of famous cartoon characters and pop-culture figures.

Evolution
He would begin to grow out of this developmental era while attending Downey High School at age 16 after creating Saenz, his first comic book pseudonym, self caricature as part of an art class homework assignment to "Draw yourself as a super hero". He began making more characters after that and even used a few in his first 2 comic books he made for his History and Economics classes for extra-credit.

During these formative years Robert also began writing poetry and experimenting with song lyrics and music production until he graduated from high school in 1997.

Aftermath
In October of 1999 he graduated from Platt College, Ontario, CA. with an Associate's Degree for desktop publishing and graphic design.

Very shortly after Robert accepted an entry level page production position with Auto Trader Magazine.

In 2004 he partnered with Benny Sum & Associates (Global Gaming Group Inc.) Here would be a fusion of his graphic design and desktop publishing experience with his character design skills he'd been developing since high school to aid in the developing various design elements for the game, Galaxy Jack.

Debut
In 2004 he released his self titled, debut album, Saenz, which would later act as soundtrack and voice to his first comic book super hero of the same name.

The album featured 12 original tracks. The first half of the album takes listener on a journey through Robert Saenz's perspective of his origins as a Xennial in early 1980's in the aftermath of Edwardian Era i.e. Industrial Revolution. The last half of the album changes the focus changes from Robert's own origin perspective to a world heading towards apocalypse. Transforming himself into newsie and prophet personas (thereby introducing two new alter egos or comic book, self caricatures) set on warning the world of an impending apocalypse should it not change its destructive and wasteful ways.

Couture
In 2006 he attained college scholarships and attended the Academy of Couture Art (now the Beverly Hills Institute of Design) in West Hollywood, CA. He'd planned to major in Fashion Design but after viewing Robert's Fashion Design Portfolio the schools founder and Dean, Sonia ÉTÉ said to him, "You don't need to learn fashion design. You are already a great designer. You will take Pattern Design instead." So that's what he did. "The experience was rewarding and life changing".

Disneyland
In 2010 Robert Saenz signed on for a 'Live Artist Residency' at Disneyland Resort, CA with Kaman's Art Shoppe's. There he live painted Disney Heroes, Princesses, Villains, etc., as well as various Marvel Comics, Star Wars, Muppets and other Disney characters while training new cast members to do carry on this tradition.

By the end of his first year he'd work his way up to Lead Artist. By the end of his residency contract in late 2012 he would leave behind a legacy of Elite Sales, Customer Service and High Fast Art recognized by 3 Kaman's Elite Awards.

Post Apocalypse
In early 2013, only a few weeks before an upcoming, scheduled, Steampunk themed event Robert Saenz created the character Victor Victrola®. Going back to his roots, Victor Victrola® was the first new pseudonym or persona of and by Robert Saenz he had created in many years, making his first quiet appearances in Robert's paintings.

Oeuvre Pop-up Art Gallery Shop
In 2013 he created Oeuvre Pop-Up Art Gallery. A Pop-up Art Gallery Shop that featured his new, original paintings and sculptures for purchase at select and random locations in Hollywood, Sacramento and Davis, CA, such as BoShin Gallery, Old Sugar Mill, Third Space Art Collective and many others.

Continuing his live events tour and adding new novelty maker's markets events he was searching for new ways to reach this niche audience so he created and added a line of luxury soaps: The Body Dandiacal, the original and curated jewelry line: Xylem and a line of hand-made and curated candles: The Lost Woods Candles to his Pop-Up Shop.

Boutique
After the success of the Oeuvre Pop-up Art Gallery Shop Robert was approached by several local retail establishments in the Mid-town, Sacramento area who invited him to bring his luxury items to their respective speciality and novelty shops in the Sacramento area including Benjamin Shoes, Get-A-Clue and others.

The Body Dandiacal made it's debut on Amazon in late 2017.

Xylem Jewelry began selling out at maker's market events and The Body Dandiacal was selling out in the weeks leading up to Valentine's Days and Christmases. This trend continued until January of 2018.

Due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the local economy Oeuvre Pop-Up Art Gallery was forced to temporarily halt any live events or in-shop operations, however, The Body Dandiacal soaps including Robert Saenz (white), Robert Saenz (Black), Vauxhall And I, Coquette, Dandizetta and TheChap remained available online.

Intro To ComicCon
In mid-late 2016 Robert Saenz seized the opportunity to bring his artwork to a ComicCon in Sacramento called, Sac-Con. He created the comic book label, Robert Saenz Comics and produced the comic book, Victor Victrola® - Ashes To Ashes (Chapter I) in less than 2 months.

The story was based on his life just pre and post-Disneyland and the character he created back in 2013. With his new comic book's storyline being so closely related to his true life experiences it was decided that the poetry and music he had been producing over the previous few decades would now be viewed as literary diary of and soundtrack to the Robert Saenz Comics™ Multiverse.

A black and white or manuscript version was printed and sold out at this first comic convention venture. The official 1st edition was published in color in early 2016 in time for his 2nd SacCon.

The Final Resurrection
Inspired by the fans reception of the first comic Robert Saenz has been hard at work producing new chapters of the Victor Victrola® saga and creating new RS Comics book titles since.

In early 2017 he began a partnership with RedBubble to create licensed merchandise print designs for various Cartoon Network Brands like Over The Garden Wall, Adventure Time, Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack and many others, KISS, Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn of The Unicorn, The Butterfly, Schmendrick The Magician, etc., Alfred Hitchcock's Birds and others. With even more designs in the works.

ComicCon Tour
Starting in March of 2017 he began The Imagination of Robert Saenz promotional tour. Touring the United States at various ComicCon's (SacAnime, Colossus Girl Ent. Cons, etc.,) from 2017-2018, appearing at his booths in person as Victor Victrola®, signing comic books, prints and more. The tour resumed in 2021 with limited ComicCon dates.

Subsequent comics, music albums, etc., continue to be published upon completion.

RS Digital Comics
Victor Victrola® comics made its digital debut on Amazon for Amazon Kindle (Kindle Enhanced Version) and Comixology (Comixology Enhanced Version) in 2016 with the release of Victor Victrola® - Ashes To Ashes (Chapter I) (published by Robert Saenz as Oeuvre Comix).

It made it's Apple Books debut in 2018 (published by Robert Saenz as Robert Saenz).

Subsequent chapters continue to be published upon completion.

Gamer
Robert Saenz released his first game app on Google Play for Space Cadet Xscape Flat Earth in 2019 (published by Robert Saenz as Saenz Comics).

He released a second game app onto Google Play in 2020 for Victor Victrola® In The Great Expanse (published by Robert Saenz as Saenz Comics).