Mar

10

Renaissance Book Tour, Comic Odyssey Sale

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Renaissance goes on the road! Our first stop is this Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the National Book Store branch in the new Glorietta 5. I’ll be on hand to sign and sketch for a cause. Hey, Tony De Zuniga is going to be there!

I always make it a point to support our local comic [...]

Mar

7

Philippine Adventure & Romance Stories #1 at Summer Komikon!

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Some of you may remember me talking about this title back in September 2009:
Philippine Adventure and Romance Stories Preview
http://gerry.alanguilan.com/archives/1998
The first issue has finally been printed and was soft launched during Renaissance at SM Megamall on February 21. A few local creators were on hand to promote and sign copies including Rico Rival, Abe Ocampo and [...]

Feb

25

Komiks Documentary (In Tagalog) from 2006

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This video is actually a school project by students of De La Salle University in Dasmariñas, Cavite. They interviewed me, along with many other comic book people in 2006 for this project. They had given me a copy, and reviewing it again recently I thought that it would be such a waste to just let [...]

Feb

23

Renaissance: Comics Convention for Charity

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Flickr Gallery
http://www.flickr.com/photos/komikero/sets/72157623365279479/

Photos from Edgar Tadeo
http://www.edgartadeo.com/?p=1917
Mcoy’s Photos
http://mcoy.blogspot.com/2010/02/renaissance-megamall-pics-n-stuff.html
Carlo Pagulayan’s Photos
http://caloyski.multiply.com/photos/album/50/Renaissance
Turns out, comics colorist for Marvel Jay David Ramos is a ROCK STAR! Oh, yeah!

Feb

22

Thank You

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I want to thank the organizers of yesterday’s Renaissance event, all the artists gave their time to do sketches, Leinil Francis Yu, and all the people who came and supported us. It was completely unexpected that the money generated from the sketches, as well as Leinil’s sketchbooks and original artwork, was eventually donated towards the [...]

Feb

18

Arlan Esmeña, December 8, 1973 – February 18, 2010

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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 [...]

Feb

14

Autobiographical Comics in the Philippines

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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 [...]

Feb

13

KomiksTrip 2010

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Photos from the recently concluded KomiksTrip 2010, The First University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Comics Convention, February 13, 2010
Flickr Photo gallery here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/komikero/sets/72157623301456907/
Same Gallery at Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=151342&id=552301105&ref=mf
Uber Massive!! Photo Gallery here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jwed2501/KomiksTRIP#

Feb

12

“Komiks Artist” by Pepper Marcelo, Arlan Update

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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 [...]

Feb

7

KOMIKSTRIP: The First UPLB Comics Convention is This Saturday!

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Take a Trip to the KOMIKSTRIP: The First UPLB Comic Book Convention happening this February 13, 2010 Saturday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Presented by the UP BUGKOS and JONASDIEGO.COM in cooperation with the 101 Boutique and the Graphic Literature Guild.
Special guest include Manix Abrera, Gerry Alanguilan, Hazel Manzano, Carlo Pagulayan, Harvey Tolibao, Lyndon [...]

Jan

17

Broaden Your Artistic Inspirations!

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If you are a comics artist wanting to develop yourself as an artist, don’t just look and read at the same old stuff!
VISIT THIS BLOG!
The Pictorial Arts
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/
Just a sample of what you’ll see. This is an awesome illustration of Prince Valiant by the great Hal Foster.

Filipino komiks trivia buffs! Did you know that Hal [...]

Dec

10

Nestor Redondo at 29

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In this photo from 1957, Nestor Redondo is more than 10 years younger than I am now. Time takes no prisoners.
Photo from http://filipinocartoonist.blogspot.com/

Dec

7

The Second San Pablo Comics Festival in Pictures

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We had the venue, the Lion’s Club of San Pablo, for only ONE day. So we had planned to bring all the tables, chairs, mobile, tarpaulins, decorations, exhibits and exhibit panels early in the day before the doors opened at 10am, and pack them all up by 6:00pm.
We were at the venue at 6:30am. We [...]

Nov

24

Sonny Trinidad Passes Away

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Hal Santiago reports that Filipino Komiks Illustrator Sonny Trinidad has passed away yesterday, November 23, 2009. The wake is currently being held in his hometown of Sta. Rosa, Laguna.
Also known as Celso Trinidad, Sonny won the Best Serial Illustrator award during the 1984 KOMOPEB Parangal sa Komiks. His work VIRGA also won in the Best [...]

Nov

24

Back From Benilde

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Just got back from The College of St. Benilde. Unfortunately, I didn’t arrive early enough to meet James Jean. It’s a Monday, and it’s always murder to go to Manila from the provinces on a Monday because of all the hordes of students and workers who all have the same idea.
I did make it for [...]

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