He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Illustration Award of 2001.
His cartoons can also be found in Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index website.
His cartoons have been published in newspapers such as The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Asiaweek, World & I, Japan Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The South China Morning Post and World Press Review, among others.
Miel has a master's degree in design (MDes) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney).
Formerly the editorial cartoonist of the now-defunct and Ferdinand Marcos-owned Philippine Daily Express, he subsequently became chief editorial cartoonist of The Philippine Star, a broadsheet founded in the post-Marcos year 1986.