Before Gabriel Rodriguez became a well known artist for his work on the award-winning Locke & Key, the Chilean comic book artist was working as an architect and providing his visual world-building to the small comic market in Chile. Among his early work were illustrations for the collectible card game Mitos y Leyendas (Myths and Legends) for SALO Publishing.

Rodriguez worked for SALO for nearly five years before breaking into American comics as the artist on multiple CSI miniseries for IDW that are based on the TV show. From there, Rodriguez worked on adaptations of George Romero’s Land of the Dead and Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show. In 2008, Rodriguez paired with Joe Hill and together they created the fantasy-horror book, Locke & Key. This title earned Rodriguez his first Eisner Award nomination for Best Penciller/Inker. The series itself was also nominated for Best Continuing Series and Best Single Issue, in addition to winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Comic or Graphic Novel in 2009 and 2012.

Following the initial conclusion of Locke & Key, Rodriguez continued to develop other creator-owned projects including the Eisner award-winning miniseries Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland with Eric Shanower and the sci-fi adventure Onyx with Chris Ryall. In 2016, he reunited with Hill for a comic adaptation of Hill’s teleplays for a new version of Tales from the Darkside, as well as for a new Locke & Key story, “Small World.”

Rodriguez made his comic book debut as the sole creator on a series with the fantasy adventure Sword of Ages. It follows Avalon as she becomes the first warrior to wield the most famous and sacred weapon of all time. Alien worlds, a sacred sword, brave knights, horrific demons, and a mythic origin story like no other, converge in this miniseries.

He was among the over three dozen creators who worked on the benefit anthology comic, Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds. Some of Rodriguez’s most recent contributions have been in The Rocketeer: The Great Race at IDW, Junkyard Joe and Universal Monsters: The Mummy at Image, Superman for DC, and The Savage Sword of Conan for Titan.