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Surprise Email, October Events

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Yesterday morning I got a pleasant surprise when I received an email from Jonathan Ross, the guy who created the Steve Ditko documentary for the BBC. Apparently he’s a fan of Nestor Redondo, Alfredo Alcala, Alex Niño and other Filipinos who did work for DC in the 1970’s. I promptly pointed him to the Philippine Comics Art Museum Online.

October will be intensely busy. My most immediate deadline is the Timawa deadline for the Buzz. By the way, great things are in store for the strip in a couple of months when my pages are increased from 2 pages to 4! I couldn’t start with it right away because of the busy sked I have for October and November, but wow, 4 pages a month is great from a storytelling point of view.

I will also have a talk about comics at the Lopez Museum on October 13 from 2-4 pm. The Lopez Museum is located at the Benpres building, Exchange Road cor Meralco at Ortigas.

John Beatty will be back for a signing at Planet X at Tri-noma in Quezon City on October 27 at 1pm onwards. I will be there as well. I was hoping to have finished Elmer #3 by that time, but unfortunately, not yet. But by hook or by crook, Elmer #3 will come out on Komikon on November 17! Or I won’t BE at Komikon!

Deadline for my “Black Cat” for Graphic Classics, which I will proceed to do immediately after Timawa. And of course, there’s my classes at Benilde every Saturday.

Oh yeah… Ben Templesmith, artist of 30 Days of Night will also be in Manila for a variety of events from October 30-November 5. More info here.

I know Azrael is planning a comics event thing on October, but I’ve no idea what. Check out his blog if there are any details.

Comments

10 Responses to “Surprise Email, October Events”

  1. Reno on October 3rd, 2007 9:50 am

    Cool! I hope Jonathan Ross features Filipino artists in a future episode of Comics Britannia.

    Congrats on the added two pages of Timawa!

  2. Ed on October 3rd, 2007 12:20 pm

    Gosh, Gerry! I believe Jonathan Ross had/has a talk show or something in UK. Kinda like David Letterman’s and Jay Leno’s. I have seen Jonatan Ross’ anime/manga documentary too. :P

    I was thinking of going to your place again for last pickup interviews for the mini-docu, but I guess ‘di na lang. :D I might ask na lang something sa email.

    Kita-kita na lang sa Planet X!

    -ed

  3. Budjette on October 3rd, 2007 12:21 pm

    Maybe you can ask Ross how we can get the full episode of the Ditko docu. It was pulled off YouTube. :(

    TIMAWA! 4-PAGES!!!
    ASTIG!!!

    Wonderful that they’re giving you more pages.

    :)

  4. Azrael on October 3rd, 2007 12:24 pm

    thanks for plugging my event Gerry! ahaha
    i dont have the official PR

    pero mark your calendars – oct 20
    Powerbooks Megamall

    this might be a start of something that is like our own komiks kongress hahhaha.

  5. Gerry Alanguilan on October 3rd, 2007 12:25 pm

    Budje… I have the full docu via torrent. hehe.

  6. Azrael on October 3rd, 2007 12:40 pm

    @ budj
    i have a download ver of the docu via youtube.
    also im downloading all comic related docu din from youtube.

  7. Joel Chua on October 3rd, 2007 6:40 pm

    Maybe Jonathan Ross will fly over? With Neil Gaiman again?

  8. Patrick on October 3rd, 2007 10:20 pm

    Wossy!!!

    Man…That guy loves Japan and Komiks!!! Cool guy.

  9. John Beatty on October 4th, 2007 6:32 pm

    Ahhh, no Elmer 3!!!

    I’ll see you all soon!

    Ingat!
    -JBeatty

  10. nashman on October 5th, 2007 8:06 am

    Wot? The Woss sent you an email??????? The bastard….He’s the top BBC presenter and also hosts a radio show on BBC2 on Saturdays…

    He is also a film critic and gave Jack Black a copy of Weng Weng’s “For your height only”…..