Comments on: Alamat 101, December 1995

By: Budjette

Budjette — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:14:36 +0000

“Timawa, Anino and the Flying Phantom”
Sunday Inquirer Magazine, January 21, 1996

In the 1960’s, there was Kulafu, a local Tarzan of sorts, all abs, decked in ethnic threads and skilled at throwing spears and arrows. In spite of Lagalag, Superman, the Ninja Turtles, the Power Rangers, the Alex Boncayao Brigade and the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission, Filipinos still hanker for heroes who are larger than life but as Pinoy as themselves.

Enter Timawa, the Last Apolaki Warrior, Anino the Mysterious Crimefighter, and the Flying Phantom. The threesome, who would give the Kuratong Baleleng a scare in a real shoot-out, are, alas, only comic characters from Alamat Comics.

A one-year old venture, Alamat has released three titles so far, including Indigo Valley/P-Noise #1 and Shadow Comics/Scions #1. The company’s latest is the action-packed anthology Alamat 101, now available in most comic outlets.

http://komix101.blogspot.com/2002/04/timawa-anino-and-flying-phantom-by-pac.html

By: Gerry Alanguilan

Gerry Alanguilan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:06:21 +0000

Budj!

I pretty much wrote an entire origin to Timawa, and David quite expertly summarized it into a few sentences which I used in to describe what the comic book is about in the mini comic version and online.

I got Dave to just pretty much write the dialogue to a plot I’ve done, and that’s only because I was so impressed by his writing and I was as yet not quite confident with my own. I don’t remember us doing anything beyond the first part.

By: Budjette

Budjette — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:52:57 +0000

Did you and Dave plot out that whole TIMAWA story arc?

Were those scripts ever written?

By: Myke08

Myke08 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:19:08 +0000

1st ko nakita ito spread na ito was..1995 or 96 ba yun…UP COMIC CONVENTION na ginawa sa FACULTY CENTER. Magkakasama kami nila IAN STA MARIA at Ka’Jo BAUTISTA ang name ng grupo namin noon was BLOCK COMICS (Kasi block section kami) Hindi kami makalapit sa grupo nyo, kasi tingin namin sa inyo noon, mga diyos! Tulo laway ako nun nakita ko yan.. pro may tissue nman ako para punasan un tumulong laway ko. hehhee.

GALING!

By: Gerry Alanguilan

Gerry Alanguilan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:23:30 +0000

Adam! PI talaga! Naihi at napatili ako the first time ko sya nakita. he.he.

Rod! The original 2 page spread is untouched. I just did the fixing on the computer. :D

By: Rod Samonte

Rod Samonte — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:15:55 +0000

Gerry,
Hmmm, really quite interesting, BWS comments that is. I think you should not even have tried to retouch the original drawing. Looks to me like everything he said are minor. I can’t even find the lines you’re referring to, about tangents meeting. Maybe I didn’t learn that in art school either, hehehe. Actually, I am sure, because tangents is a geometrical term, one that you learn if you’re studying mathematics, or since Architecture actually require a lot of mathematics, you must have learned that. However, I think there is an art term for what he calls tangents, I just can’t put my finger on it right now. The white posts are a little tricky because the bottom half is in the dark area of the roofs and houses where you’ve done a lot of line work. I don’t think making it black will work, but a simple thickening on the shadow side of the vertical lines of the post, I think, should do the trick. Wait a minute, I do see the smoke now, running parallel with that railroad tracks. I see what he’s saying now. What BWS calls tangents, I would just call overlapping elements. The way to correct this of course is to simply overlap the smoke more over the tracks.

While you’re on a nostalgia binge here, showing your old illustrations, here’s a bit of a find: I just picked up a mint copy of SIGLO, at a used book store here. There’s a short story inside, written and illustrated by you, titled SAN DIG. I will read the book tonight.
Rod

By: adam!

adam! — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:59:30 +0000

tangina. BWS. tangina lang talaga.

By: Chummy

Chummy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:17:24 +0000

hello sir,

Ive already ordered alamat 101 together with your elmer 1 and 2 last year and your work rocks then and is stronger now. Rakenrol!

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:58:54 +0000

Minsan pag ginagawa mo na lahat ng alam mo sa drawing, nagiging instict na and you won’t notice; like contrasting objects to one other.

Swerte mo pa rin, BWS ang nagbigay ng tips sa yo. Hehe.

By: Gerry Alanguilan

Gerry Alanguilan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:39:29 +0000

Hello Rod! The redrawn scene is here: http://gerry.alanguilan.com/archives/200

Barry taught me about tangents, something I never knew before. Like the line of the smoke touching the line of the railroad. He said the smoke should either not touch it, or cover it altogether. Several other tangents occur throughout.

The small van in the back crossing the tracks looks like it’s stopped in the middle of the tracks. He said that it should be either in the process of crossing the tracks or just crossed it to convey movement.

He also said it would have been better to have the white posts on the right to be black or darker so it contrasts with the sky.

He also thought Timawa was a woman. :D

The fixed page is here:
http://www.alanguilan.com/sanpablo/art/timawa01.jpg
I couldn’t fix everything though….