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Elmer #3 At Druid’s Keep, Taylor Hicks

Filed Under Elmer, General, Philippine Comics | 5 Comments

For those of you who get your comics at Druid’s Keep in Magallanes, Elmer #3 is now available at the shop! We passed by on the way home from the “Pasko ng Komiks” Symposium at the UP.

About the symposium, I was rather disappointed that not too many people were there when we started at 9am. I was the first to speak, and I felt that it was too bad that not too many people were able to catch my lecture. I felt I had a lot of things to say that were at the very root of the problems of the comics industry, which would best be heard by the people interested and involved in the industry.

I felt a pang of disappointment when people started to arrive just as I finished talking. It was kind of funny, actually. But I am deeply thankful to those people who arrived early, who were obviously morning persons just like me.

(UPDATE) You can have a listen to my lecture here:
http://michipi.multiply.com/music/item/25/paskom_2007

I’m also very grateful to Read or Die for taking their involvement in Philippine comics a step further by organizing the event. When I first encountered Read or Die early this year during their first convention, I felt that comics were not an integral part of their agenda. They rectified the situation almost immediately by featuring comics more in their activities. And now by December, they launched this full scale symposium on this very subject. And I think it’s terrific! Thanks to Kristin and everyone else at Read or Die! You guys rock!

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I’m overwhelmed at the response I get to my Taylor Hicks post (below), and it’s made me see how great a group of people my wife Ilyn has found online. I’m really touched, to be quite honest. Thank you very much to every one of you! I am glad to say that there have been responses to my inquiry that brings the chances of us meeting Taylor to be quite good. YEAH!

Comments

5 Responses to “Elmer #3 At Druid’s Keep, Taylor Hicks”

  1. adam! on December 12th, 2007 7:02 am

    ger! akala ko maaabutan ko talk mo kahapon, pero kasi me dinaanan muna ako sa trabaho (komiks-related naman) at natrapik nang husto sa quezon ave. si pablo gomez na ang nagsasalita nung nakarating ako. oh well! okey rin naman yung talk na yun, although… masyadong optimistic ang mga tao na naabutan ko.

  2. Azrael on December 12th, 2007 10:39 am

    got disappointed too
    but mine is different, got stuck in the traffic in coastal road, and arriving at 11am
    arghh! missed your lecture!

    just documented the 2 parts of the symposium
    will upload it in komiks news now later.

  3. pat on December 12th, 2007 7:58 pm

    I think you were just done with your talk when I arrived. That’s okay because I downloaded the mp3 file from the link you gave. Thanks! I’m still looking forward for more of your lectures like the one you had at the Lopez museum, though.

  4. Kris on December 13th, 2007 1:47 am

    Thanks for the update on a meet and greet with Taylor for you and Ilyn. Couldn’t happen to a nicer couple! Thanks, also, for the kind words about the on-line SP! It is a nice group of people!

  5. Pilar on December 17th, 2007 12:13 pm

    Ooooh… crap. I didn’t get to go there, kasi tinamad ako, hehe. xD Hehe, so sori po, sir. Ang hirap talaga mag-stay sa Manila. Sa UP Diliman pa. Tapos, may trapik pa! DAMN! xD;