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Summer Komikon is May 26, 2012! Mark Millar on May 27! (UPDATED)

Filed Under Comic Book Signings, Comics Artists, COMICS CONVENTIONS | 14 Comments

Believe it or not, Summer Komikon is THIS WEEKEND!

As the poster says, it will be held on May 26, 2012 at the Bayanihan Center, Unilab Compound, Pasig City from 10am to 7pm.

How to get there? Check out this map!

Special guests include Heubert Khan Michael, Freely Abrigo and Elmer Damaso. But you can bet a whole lot more artists from the local independent comics scene to the guys doing comics for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and Image are going to be there.

I will have a table myself, but I really won’t have any new comics to sell. I’ll probably let go a few more pieces of original artwork at that crazy slashed Komikon only prices, plus a few comics and mags in my collection that I’m willing to let go. Elmer is going to be sold by National Book Store, and I’m all out of Bold Stars. I was considering giving Summer Komikon 2012 a pass, but I thought well, I might as well go and just hang around and check out the new comics the other guys are doing.

I will also be selling sets of Arnold Arre and Budjette Tan’s “BATCH 72″ for P100 a set. This is a rare item from the early days of Alamat so get yours while I still have stocks! There are three issues in the set, all standard sized comic books.

I will also be selling other more obscure books I’ve worked on in the past.

Oh yeah! Every year there’s a huge line at the entrance to Bayanihan Center. Do you want to avoid standing in line? You can buy your tickets right now and you can just waltz in the con as soon as you arrive, providing the con is already open that is. You can buy tickets at any branch of Comic Odyssey!

AUCTION FOR MINDANAO SCHOOL CHILDREN (Lapis at Papel)

At the Komikon, there will be an auction of original artworks by the likes of :

HEUBERT MICHAEL KAHN
CARLO PAGULAYAN
CARLO VERGARA
LEINIL FRANCIS YU
EDGAR TADEO
KAJO BALDISOMO-MORING
MANIX ABRERA

This is all for “Lapis at Papel”, a charity to benefit Mindanao school children.

For a more in depth guide to Summer Komikon goings on, check out their Facebook Page as well as their Official Page.

And because no Komikon is complete without Omeng Estanislao’s amazing drawings….


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See on the 26th!

Oh yeah, if Summer Komikon is not enough, see you as well on the following day, May 27, where you will have a chance to meet THIS guy.


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I’ll be there as well, drooling. I’m a big Mark Millar fan, and it’s something that never really went away even when I got to work with him.

Comments

14 Responses to “Summer Komikon is May 26, 2012! Mark Millar on May 27! (UPDATED)”

  1. Omar on May 14th, 2012 8:29 am

    Hi Gerry,

    Would you know (or if you have a friend at NBS) if the event organizers will allow the signing of other Mark Millar works that were not purchased at NBS? Would they allow signing of original art pages? NBS is implementing a siging stub so i don’t know how strict they will be because i already purchased Mark Millar titles previously and buying duplicate copies just to get in line is not really an attractive option for me.

    Thanks!

  2. Gerry Alanguilan on May 14th, 2012 9:44 am

    Hello… I don’t know the exact policy they have… but I think you do need to buy something with the signing pass to have at least one of your books signed. Far from a money making scheme, it’s more of a breaking even scheme because of the enormous amounts of money NBS had to spend to bring Millar here.

  3. Omar on May 14th, 2012 6:34 pm

    Thanks Gerry. I would like to buy the Supercrooks issues if NBS will sell them with a pass since i haven’t bought it yet rather than getting duplicate copies of his HCs/TPBs.

  4. National Book Store on May 15th, 2012 12:20 pm

    Hi Omar.

    Just to answer your questions …

    For every purchase of any Mark Millar title at National Book Store or Powerbooks, you will get one (1) signing pass which is good for one (1) signature. One pass, one signature. You can have multiple signing passes if you buy multiple books. You may substitute another book, comic, etc. for the book you bought. For example, you buy a Superior HC at NBS and get a signing pass. You can have Mark sign your Superior HC or substitute something else in its place (ie an old copy of Wanted #1).

    Unfortunately, except for the brief promotion we had, we will NOT be selling the single issues of Supercrooks.

    Please do not hesitate to let us know if you are looking for a particular HC or TPB as we are currently stocked with all of Mark’s titles.

    You can find full details on The Milla in Manila or get in touch with us through our Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Book-Store/72546266913.

    Thanks and hope to see you at the event!

  5. Omar on May 16th, 2012 8:45 am

    Thanks NBS for the response!

  6. Joey on May 24th, 2012 2:43 pm

    Sir,

    What time will the auctions start? And would you know if sir Leinil Yu will be going as well?

  7. Gerry Alanguilan on May 24th, 2012 3:11 pm

    Auction itself starts around 4pm, but you can already check out Jonas Diego’s table where some of the art that’s going to be sold is going to be drawn.

  8. Danry Ocmpo on May 24th, 2012 4:07 pm

    Hi Gerry,

    Thanks for the Batch 72 Sets.

    See You!

    Danry

  9. LJ on May 24th, 2012 4:21 pm

    Gerry, how many Batch 72 copies will you have? Mind if you hold one set for me? I’ll be there at around 5.

    Thanks! :)

  10. Norby on May 24th, 2012 8:36 pm

    Sir Gerry, pareserve po ng Batch 72. Thanks po. :-)

  11. narj on May 25th, 2012 9:10 pm

    Ako din sir Gerry, kung pwedeng pa-reserve ng isang set. Will be there around 6 pm.

  12. Gerry Alanguilan on May 26th, 2012 6:30 am

    Agahan mo sana ng konti Narj…. we might leave early kasi. Mga 6 baka paalis na kami.

  13. gilbertyaptan on May 27th, 2012 12:05 am

    Hi Gerry! Is National Book Store distributing the Batch 72 sets nationwide? Sana nga para makabili kami dito sa Gensan.

  14. Gerry Alanguilan on May 27th, 2012 11:08 pm

    Nope! Yesterday, it was only being distributed by me, and it was quickly sold out, unfortunately.