Rudy Mesina has worked in Filipino comics, before he went to work for the US market in the mid-1970s. He worked as an inker and letterer on many Marvel titles, including 'John Carter', 'Bloodstone' and 'Tarzan', and did pencils on several issues of 'Marvel Classics Comics'. In 1992, he did clean-ups for storyboards at Graz Entertainment ('The X-Men').