Jonathan Martinez

**Jonathan Martinez** is a student but is mostly known for being the creator of the Monkey Man series which created in September of 2013. He is as well is the writer, illustrator, and publisher of the series. Jonathan created the story and the characters when he was eight years old in 2013.

During the making of the first comic issue, Jonathan met a peer of his, A. Jonathan and A weren't friends, but were in the same classroom. He showed A the creation of the comic, and they both shared a licensed pact called Willy Bros. Although, the Willy Bros pact was founded in September 2013, it wasn't until years later around January 2016, it was officially noticed.

A agreed to co-supervise and distribute the comic when it was finished, Jonathan continued to work on the project. The comic issue was released and was called *Monkey Man* making it the first release in the series with many more to come.

Jonathan thought of distributing *Monkey Man* to the whole class, but soon denied the idea and the comic was only for the eyes of Martinez and A. Jonathan realized he wanted to continue making comics for fun. Soon after, they both agreed for a sequel to be created with Jonathan supervising, writing, illustrating, and publishing the second comic.

After the release of *Monkey Man 2: A Jungle Sequel*, Jonathan and A never met up for plans of creating a third installment. For the rest of the school year of third grade they never spoke to each other and in fourth grade they never spoke due for being in separate classrooms. During the time between the third grade year of 2013-2014 and the fourth grade year of 2014-2015, Jonathan took a break from the *Monkey Man* and focused on other projects such as *Super Pot Kid* and *Lizard Man.*

Eventually, in the early fall of the fifth grade school year of 2015, they met again, outside in the hallway right in-front of their English classroom. A said something along the words like "Do you remember me?" and Jonathan lied "No, I don't know remember you,". A, shrugged it off and walked away from Jonathan. Jonathan remembered him and felt guilty for lying, even though they weren't friends, he could had said he remembered, A. Though, Jonathan didn't feel comfortable talking to people he didn't knew to well and it's been years since they spoke to each other.

Around December 2015, Jonathan thought of the idea to return to the *Monkey Man* series and he was soon ready to make the third installment in the series. He finished the comic issue when he was ten years old, in his school home room on January 2016 and it was officially titled *Monkey Man 3: Return of the Partner.*

A week or two later, Martinez wanted to create something new for the Monkey Man series. He created the first spin-off Monkey Man series called Past which is a series that tells the origins of characters. Jonathan started working on the first comic issue of a trilogy revolving around the origins of Monkey Man called *Monkey Man Past: Part One* and it was released on February 3rd, 2016.

Shorty after the release of Monkey Man Past: Part One, Jonathan began to think that, A hasn’t put any contribution to series since third grade with the release of the second comic issue two and a half years ago from the context of the year 2016, nor did Jonathan ever thing A will return and help.

Though under the terms of Willy Bros, A had credits in *Monkey Man 3: Return of the Partner* and *Monkey Man Past: Part One*, he didn’t distribute and co-supervise like he did with the first comic or didn’t co-supervise like he did with the sequel. The Willy Bros pact didn’t had any rules established by Jonathan or A, but Jonathan made the decision to discontinue the pact in February 2016.

A few months later, Jonathan began to work on the second installment in the Monkey Man Past Trilogy and it was considered to be the first comic issue to be in the works after the Willy Bros era. The second comic titled *Monkey Man Past (A Monkey Man Past Story): Part Two: Treasure of Watewe* and was released on May 24th, 2016.

Eventually, Jonathan took a second break from the Monkey Man series to focus on the *Super Pot Kid/Power Team Universe* during late May through early 2017. Jonathan then returned to Monkey Man when he was eleven years old in the sixth grade, and he started to work on the third and final installment of the Monkey Man Past Trilogy. One day during the creation of the comic issue, he was working on the it when his teacher saw him drawing. The teacher thought the comic was cool, and he read of things out loud. Jonathan didn’t like this especially because he wanted to keep his things private, only if he gives consent for others to look at his work. The comic issue was released around May 2017 and it was called *Monkey Man Past (A Monkey Man Past Story): Part Three: Zooed.*

After their brief encounter with each other they haven't really spoke to each other, only during group work or when they just walk by each other, though the rest of fifth grade to eight grade. In one point of the eight-grade school year of 2019, A ,moved and left the school district for good, and to this day A and Jonathan never talked (due for not having each others contact numbers) or saw each other ever again.

## Credits

* *Monkey Man* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *Monkey Man 2: A Jungle Sequel* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *Monkey Man 3: Return of the Partner* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *Monkey Man Past (A Monkey Man Past Story): Part One* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *Monkey Man Past (A Monkey Man Past Story): Part Two: Treasure of Watewe* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *Monkey Man Past (A Monkey Man Past Story): Part Three: Zooed* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *Monkey Man 4* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *Monkey Man 5: Return to the Amazon: Part One* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *Monkey Man 5 1/2: Dr. Doodle's Revolution* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *Monkey Man 6: Return to the Amazon: Part Two* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)
* *The Monkey Man Comic* (creator, supervisor, writer, illustrator, publisher)