Medyo nakakalungkot ang surrender ng ibang tao dito sa paggamit ng Ingles, et al, bilang paraan para maging success sa komix, na weirdly ay international ang pagkakaintindi. Hindi ko talaga maintindihan ang abandon ng pagyakap ng mga komix peeps sa globalisation.

thanks for the link! wow. 1947. Great artists indeed:)!

JM,
I’m glad you noticed this. Much of the illustration in U.S. comics now do away with the static 6 frames per page. You’ll notice Leinil and other illustrators use more dynamic layouts nowadays. But would you believe that Francisco V. Coching was already doing this back way back in 1947? Take a look at these illustrations for Hagibis, featured in Unang Labas: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V9j4Xaqd85A/SVGUVy3ZvmI/AAAAAAAAEQY/OBm8-efLls0/s1600-h/h10-15a.jpg
Rod

mang nestor malgapo suggested the color pallete to be used, and the one who did the coloring is ferdee bambico.

Yeah, it may be in English, but watch the Filipino touch in the dialogues. The crying woman is saying HU-HU-HU instead of SOB-SOB-SOB (no, I don’t mean son of a bitch :) Just kidding.

Seriously now:

With the komiks in English, if the publishers decide to market it worldwide, then there’s no more problem translating them like in the case of Spanish and French comic books. As long as the captions and dialogues are not stilted, it’s just fine and dandy.

Maybe some people might say: But the masses want tagalog!

Don’t the masses get their daily dose of silly, nonsensical telenovelas daily already? I see them here just to find out what sort of quality they have and I’m telling ya, man, it’s Atrocious with a capital A.

RP komiks might come back, but I doubt if they will be in Tagalog. I think there is a new generation of komiks readers who would rather read them in English. Aling Kuwala and Mang Kiko were the voracious readers of the old Tagalog melodramatic komiks of olden days, the likes of CJC-Sterling komiks, and CJC’s forté (and I mean forté with the accent on the E.) Take note that in RP, forte (pronounced FORT – Which means STRENGTH), is always mistakenly pronounced as FOR-TEY). BUT forté (FOR-TEY) has a diferent meaning: “a thing at which someone excels.” Therefore, when a cough syrup is advertised in RP TV and radio, I always hear FOR-TEY, instead of the right pronunciation which is: FORT.

Oh, well, that’s just an aside. Been hearing this word pronounced wrong and the French in me is just rebelling :(

Ha-ha-ha. CJ, I’m just being a grumpy old man, forgive me.

But, yes. I think English is definitely the way to go. If RP wishes to have a place in world comics, who would buy it in Tagalog? We already know that the tagalog komiks readers are no longer there. Remember now that RP is RP, not France or Spain. Therefore, English it will be.

And Fermin Salvador is absolutely right. Scratches produced from Chicken feet dim sum will definitely not pan anymore if you want your comic books to excel. You’ll be better off starting a DIM SUM restaurant and serve the best CHICKEN FEET dim sum in RP.

CJ, I apologize for talkin’ silly here, but I’ve been smokin’ somethin’ that makes me giggly and everything ’round me is bright and beautiful. It’s awesome, man, awesome. He-He-Heeeeeee!