Apolonio "Pol" Medina Jr. (born April 6, 1960) is a Filipino cartoonist best known for his comic strip Pugad Baboy.

In 1985, a year after securing his professional license, he went to Iraq at the height of the Iran–Iraq War to work for an Italian construction company.

[1][2] In 1986, Medina started scripting and drawing characters for a new cartoon about a community of fatsos and a dog named Polgas.

The company adopted Ad Astra Per Aspera for its motto, inspired by Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

On June 8, 2013, after a 25-year run with Pugad Baboy, Medina formally resigned from the Inquirer after St. Scholastica's College threatened to sue the paper over his June 4 strip, which reportedly lambasted hypocrisy among Christians against homosexuals when certain sectarian schools condone such students among their ranks.