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A Couple of Reviews

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This news article came out towards the end of 2007 at the Philippine Daily Inquirer. I just had a lot of stuff going on so I wasn’t able to write about it until now.

12 to Read Them All
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view_article.php?article_id=109467
By Ruel S. De Vera
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 08:39am (Mla time) 12/30/2007

MANILA, Philippines – Even as more people bemoan what appears to be the young generation’s growing distaste for reading, 2007 was actually a banner year as far as those old-fashioned artifacts called books were concerned. The pages turned, minds opened. Local or foreign, big or small, books were hot topics these past 12 months, and here, in no particular order, are 12 tomes that hit the shelf just right.

7. “Elmer” # 3 by Gerry Alanguilan (Komikero Publishing): The year brings the penultimate volume in Alanguilan’s offbeat and amazing comic book mini-series about a Philippines where chickens have gained sentience. This issue recalls the all-important day when the chickens discovered they were their own, uh, birds.

It’s a list that includes JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at #1, The Kite of Stars and Other Stories by Dean Francis Alfar at #3, Elbert Or’s The More The Manyer: Pinoy Cliches and Other Words of Wisdumb at #5, Tongues on Fire by Conrado De Quiros at #8 and so forth. Click on the link above or here for the full list.

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Another year end review is about something I’ve done, well, many years ago. I did an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “The Judge’s House” several years ago which came out in Graphic Classics: Bram Stoker. A new edition of the volume came out, for which I provided a new intro piece for my story.

Wham Bam, Thank You, Bram
http://www.eyeoncomics.com/?p=214
Posted by Don MacPherson on October 1st, 2007

The most intriguing piece in the book is Gerry Alanguilan’s adaptation of a lesser known Stoker work. Alanguilan, a writer/artist from the Philippines perhaps best known by North American comics fans as an inker on such titles as Silent Dragon and Superman: Birthright, offers up his vision of “The Judge’s House,” which is something of a classic ghost story. As such, it’s more than a bit predictable, but it’s entertaining nonetheless. Alanguilan’s approach to the piece put me in mind of the classic EC horror stories of the 1950s. His realistic approach to the art is impressive, and it also captures a classic and traditional look. Alanguilan’s contribution is the stand-out of this anthology and the most professional and polished effort one will find in these pages.

Click on the link above or here for the entire article. Thanks to Teddy Pavon for the link.

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