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Jul

31

Two Francisco V. Coching Books in September

Filed Under Books, Comics Artists, Filipino Artists, Philippine Comics | 26 Comments

“The Life and Art of Francisco Coching“, a profusely illustrated coffee table book on the storied and colorful life of Francisco V. Coching, published by Vibal Publishing, will be launched at the National Museum in September. My contribution to this book is an essay on Coching and his impact on the current generation of Filipinos, [...]

Jul

24

A Different Publishing Route

Filed Under Books, Creating Comics, Elmer, My Art, My Comics, Philippine Comics | 8 Comments

By Komikon in October I’ll have the compilation of ELMER ready. I’ve been debating with myself (and a few people) what to do with the book and how to distribute it. I’ve always maintained that I would be bringing ELMER to the big bookstores once it’s compiled. I’ve reasoned that bringing ELMER to bookstores as [...]

Jul

3

Awesome Find

Filed Under Books, Comics Artists | 16 Comments

Every start of the month I make it a point to make a trek to town to visit our local Booksale when new stocks arrive. I want to get ahead of the others who think of doing the same thing, just so I can get first dibs on the cool stuff. Sometimes I don’t come [...]

May

25

Book Blockade: Is It Really Over?

Filed Under Books, My Comics, Philippine Comics | 11 Comments

Earlier today, it was reported that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, amidst a torrent of criticism towards the Bureau of Customs and their imposition of tax on imported books, ordered the Department of Finance to lift the tariff on books. The book blockade has finally been broken! But is it really? I hope people who supported [...]

May

25

The Book Blockade has ENDED!

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Wow, I almost could not believe it. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has ordered the Department of Finance to cease the taxation of imported books. Taxes on book imports lifted http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=471074&publicationSubCategoryId=63 “MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo ordered yesterday the Department of Finance to scrap the taxes imposed on imported books and reading material. Press Secretary Cerge [...]

May

23

Taxing Our Future

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Full official statement by the Unesco Philippines Commission opposing the imposition of import duties on imported books. Thanks to Manolo Quezon. Taxing Our Future Taxing Our Future mlq3 Full official statement by the Unesco Philippines Commission opposing the imposition of import duties on imported books. Publish at Scribd or explore others: Taxes & Accounting Business [...]

May

23

Hayden Kho and The Urgent Need for Education

Filed Under Books | 13 Comments

It’s unbelievable that a Philippine senator wasted an entire privilege speech crying blood and thunder and spitting venom all because of private sex videos that became public. Anti sex video bills are hurriedly filed and it’s all the media can ever talk about. ARE YOU PEOPLE FUCKING INSANE? People have sex. And people shoot themselves [...]

May

19

Video: The Great Philippine Book Blockade of 2009

Filed Under Books, Internet, Politics, Video Blogs | 7 Comments

You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Hdppn9_lo Facebook:

May

15

Great Philippine Book Blockade of 2009: What You Can Do

Filed Under Books | 3 Comments

To recap: The Philippine government is in violation of an international treaty called the Florence Agreement of 1950 and Nairobo Protocol of 1976. Since the Philippines is a signatory to this agreement, they are bound to follow it. What is this agreement about? Basically, all books imported into the country should be tax free. Apparently [...]

May

12

“NOVELS and READING BOOKS are NOT EDUCATIONAL”

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Yes, someone from the Philippine government said that. Pinoy book lovers criticize new Customs policy http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=466107&publicationSubCategoryId=63 It’s no wonder why other sections of the government consider comics as not having “research value”. Many people there think alike. Are they really so uncultured and stupid? I don’t have to answer it. They prove it all by [...]

May

5

The Great Philippine Book Blockade of 2009

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This is posted word for word from this blog. I have no other comment except to say that I am furious and that once again, the Philippine government has shown how incompetent, and how utterly uncultured they are. ******************* In the last few months, the importation of books into the Philippines has virtually stopped. (I’ve [...]

Mar

28

Elmer Gift Set Batch 1

Filed Under Books, Elmer, Family, My Art, My Comics | 18 Comments

The first batch of Elmer Gift Sets will be delivered today. Yes, we’d rather prefer to hand these sets directly to those who bought them rather then send them via courier. We don’t want to take the chance that it they will be lost, and that I feel it’s much better to meet with those [...]

Mar

11

ELMER Hand Bound Collection Preview

Filed Under Books, Elmer, My Art, My Comics | 24 Comments

Komikero Publishing, in cooperation with Paper Basket, will be releasing severely limited copies of an ELMER Collection Gift Set, which would include hand bound copies of #1-4, and many other extras including a piece of original artwork (not from the comics, but specially made for each set), a CD containing “Chicken Joy”, Edgar Tadeo’s documentary [...]

Feb

19

You Would Want to Own It

Filed Under Books, My Comics, Online Comics | 15 Comments

I’ve been reading a lot of things about the death of the traditional publishing industry (print), and what it means for comics. It’s undeniable now, specially after witnessing newspapers after newspapers take hits with plummeting sales and laid off employees. The book publishers have similar gloom and doom stories, and yes, even comics publishers. I’ve [...]

Oct

28

Crazy October

Filed Under Books, Elmer, Movies, My Comics, Timawa | 6 Comments

October 2008 will go down in my personal history as one of the most eventful. I’d rather not mention the more sordid events, but I can say that I was horribly sick at the start of the month. It took me more than a week to recover. A week later, my wife Ilyn fell sick [...]

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