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28

A Great Time for Philippine Comics

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One of the things that make me excited about Sterling Paper entering publishing comics is that not only will comics will be more widespread beyond Metro Manila, I was also hoping that it could encourage other companies to invest in comics.

As I’ve always mentioned before, a lot of us have been making comics in the last 15 years, but our financial resources are limited. It takes millions of pesos to produce comics that are inexpensive and distributed to all corners of the country. Before Sterling paper came along, no one had that kind of money, or at least was willing to invest that kind of money into comics.

But at last someone did pony up the money, and here we are. The Sterling published komiks have finally reached San Pablo City. I saw them at our bus terminal yesterday. Johnny reports having seen them in Davao, and other people have reported buying them in their respective areas.

Sterling is even seriously going ahead with a SECOND line of comics, which will have younger creators. And I think it’s about time. But I do have my own concerns about that, but I’ll find out more about it before saying anything further.

All this has encouraged ANOTHER company to invest in comics, which they say will be competitive with Sterling. We’ll see how they do when their comics come out, but for now, I think it’s fantastic that we’re on the verge of a large scale boom in comics.

Comments

7 Responses to “A Great Time for Philippine Comics”

  1. Gio Paredes on September 28th, 2007 2:08 pm

    Hmmmmm. I wonder who is that other company?

  2. Pao on September 28th, 2007 4:03 pm

    oo nga..
    maglalabas kaya ulit ang mga batikang publisher nung mga nakaraang henerasyon ng kanilang pera upang mag-ambag muli sa industriya ng komiks..

    hmm.. sana..

    para mas lumakas pa.. at maging masigla muli ang komiks..

    sarap cguro nun no.. makikita mong mapuno na naman ang bawat sulok ng pilipinas ng mga komiks na katulad dati..

  3. Caloy P. on September 28th, 2007 7:37 pm

    yessss… :)
    Meaning may sarili rin distribution?

  4. Gerry Alanguilan on September 28th, 2007 9:31 pm

    Caloy… Sa tingin ko meron silang distribution. Book publisher sila e.

  5. Joel Chua on September 28th, 2007 11:07 pm

    Talaga naman ‘tong si Gerry… suspense.

  6. Reno on September 29th, 2007 1:45 pm

    Text book publisher. I don’t know if I’m at liberty to say who it is at this time (assuming Gerry and I are both talking about the same one here). Although nag-email na rin sila sa iba’t-ibang creators that they could get ahold of.

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