With Cresencio “Bum” Tenorio

Those are REAL clay pots!!

With Rachelle Gerodias and Bum

Glad to be home. I’m still feeling sick, but I didn’t feel it too much today. It was maybe the adrenaline. It was awesome to finally meet Rachelle Gerodias, who “met” me at You Tube. She’s an honest to goodness soprano and when she [...]

When the Komikero Artists Group launched our (impossibly) regular series “Komikero Komiks Anthology” (now on it’s 6th issue) early last year, I thought I would create a new stand-alone WASTED story. I’ve always tried to avoid creating anything new with regards to Wasted because I wanted to create new things, other things. Having been happy [...]

Umlauts and Atom Bombs is a collection of short comics stories, illustrations, doodles and whatnot, worked on between the deadlines. It’s like a grown up Crest Hut Butt Shop, but not really.
This first issue features “Mitch and Mischa“, written by me and illustrated by veteran komiks illustrator Marivi Hilos-Nepomuceno, whose specialty was drama/love stories for [...]

February 21 Update: Renaissance is TODAY, but I will be late. Lots of work stuff still to finish. I’ll be there around 11:30am onwards.

The first thing that people ask is… what is “Renaissance”? There seems to be some confusion as to what it is, I know. Even the posters that have come out have been [...]

February 18, 2010 Arlan passed away at 5:30 this morning. :(
Thanks for all your comments. Arlan was very appreciative of all the messages posted for him on this blog. I printed out the comments and gave it to him, and he read them all himself just a few days ago.

The Art of Arlan Esmeña
http://gerry.alanguilan.com/archives/1939
Arlan’s [...]

Autobiographical comics, or diary comics, is probably the one remaining genre of comics that have yet to be explored fully in Philippine comics. It is a genre virtually unheard of in the old industry, and it is a genre that very few modern day creators have tried.
Is it because Filipinos don’t really want to talk [...]

KOMIKSTRIP, the first UPLB (University of the Philippines, Los Baños) Comics Convention is today! I’ll be on hand first thing in the morning to give a lecture on the History of Philippine Comics for the workshop, and then pretty much for the entire day I’ll just be peddling chickens and bold stars.
More info here!
http://jonasdiego.com/komikstrip/
The [...]

This is a short video interview with me conducted by Pepper Marcelo around 2005. This was initially intended to be a much bigger thing, with more artists and not just me in it, I was told. I don’t know exactly what happened, but Pepper decided to put this together so at least my part of [...]

Gerry Alanguilan waxes poetic about dead bold stars
FAYE ILOGON, GMANews.TV
01/08/2010 | 10:17 PM
Gerry Alanguilan’s Where Bold Stars Go to Die—which tells the story of young man named Daniel who is obsessed over a dead 80s bold star—is more than what it seems. Despite its title, it’s not just about bold stars.
Read entire review [...]

Ruel S. De Vera of the Philippine Daily Inquirer picks ELMER as one of the most notable books of 2009. Woo hoo! :) I actually almost missed seeing it. A friend of my dad called him up on Tuesday telling him about the mention in last Monday’s Inquirer. My dad went to Sta. Rita, our [...]

I think I’ll be killing Timawa today. All for a good cause.
Drawing above is by Whilce Portacio.

ELMER is now available at the following outlets:
Sputnik!, Cubao X, Cubao
Comic Odyssey, Robinson’s Galleria
Comic Quest, Megamall, Northmall and Festival Mall
Planet X, Glorietta 4
Druid’s Keep, Gateway Center, Magallanes
Solidaridad Book Shop, Padre Faura, Ermita
Directly from me. Just email me at gerryalanguilan at yahoo dot com with the subject line ELMER. Please indicate your location so I can [...]

I’ve been browsing reviews of UNDERPASS online and one particular comment about my story SIM I found funny. The writer said I managed to work San Pablo City into my stories… AGAIN. ha! ha!
For those tuning in just now, SUMMIT Media, the publishing giant responsible for magazines such as FHM Philippines, K-Zone, High School Musical, [...]

Live Auction for Flood Victims
That’s Jonas Diego and me on stage yesterday, auctioning a variety of stuff including original artworks, signed sketchbooks by Leinil Yu, etc. The online auctions, the live auctions, as well as the caricature auctions conducted by Mr. Hugo Yonzon at the Podium have so far raised more than 80 thousand [...]

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