Born: 1899 June 24 in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Died: 1970 June 6 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Biography: Pazmiño was brought to America as an infant and educated in Brooklyn at Erasmus Hall High School, where he was art editor of The Erasmian, and at Pratt Institute. By the mid-1920s he was producing syndicated newspaper strips including Frolicky Fables (with Wesley Morse) (the Premier Syndicate) and The Figgers Family (Central Press Association).
Starting in the late 1920s his work appeared regularly in American comic books, including The Funnies, Famous Funnies, Keen Detective Funnies, Daredevil Comics, Black Terror, Fighting Yank, Barnyard Comics, and Whiz Comics, usually signed with his initials, VEP. He also contributed gag cartoons to Ballyhoo.
Pazmiño never married or had any children. He died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1970, at age 70.
Notes: To be confirmed against the Who's Who entry.
Additional info at: https://timtimmons.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/a-cartoonist-in-the-family/