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Dec

15

3rd San Pablo City Comics Festival Contest Winners

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Click for Larger Image. Kathrine Cristostomo (Academia de San Ignacio de Loyola) , winner in the Children’s Category One of the 3rd San Pablo City Comics Festival main events was an art contest with two categories, Children’s and Young Adults. Since I was from San Pablo and was familiar with how art contests are usually [...]

Dec

12

“Paskong Teknicolor” by A.S. Vel and Emil Rodriguez

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This is a nice Christmas komiks story from writer A.S. Vel and illustrator Emil Rodriguez. I received this story as a loose comics supplement that came with no date or any other publishing info. But based on the creators involved, I would hazard a guess that this was published around early 1960s. Komiks released during [...]

Dec

12

New Pinoy Superheroes on GMA 7!

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Featured creators include Gio Paredes, Paolo Fabregas and Budjette Tan. Mabuhay ang Pinoy Komiks!

Dec

11

Thinking About the Future

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Comic book artist Jason Pearson’s disturbing post at Facebook yesterday brings to light the plight of many working (or not working) in comics today. It’s a hard hard business. There has been a seismic shift in the comics industry that occured over the last 10 years. On one hand one can point a finger at [...]

Dec

10

Ruben “Rubeny” Yandoc: Filipino Komiks Writer and Artist

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Click here to read the entire story. An art gallery of Filipino Komiks creator Ruben Yandoc, also known as “Rubeny“, has been uploaded up at the Philippine Comics Online Museum. Click here or on the link below to see a gallery of his Philippine work, which includes collaborations with other writers and stories he wrote [...]

Dec

9

“Bold Stars” and the Nature of Collaboration

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Dec

9

Comic Book Signing at Sputnik, Cubao, December 10, 2011

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Click for Larger Image Four indie komiks creators will have a signing this Saturday at Sputnik, Cubao X, Cubao, Quezon City this Saturday, December 10 from 8pm to 12 midnight. Creators include Gio Paredes, who just released his first Kalayaan TPB, Macoy Tang of School Run, Mascot and Operasyon, and the Work-in-Progress duo of Teddy [...]

Dec

8

Nestor Redondo’s Bible from Superyor Komiks, 1968

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Click for Larger Image Long before Nestor Redondo embarked on his tabloid sized adaptation of the Bible for DC comics in 1975, he worked on a much more massive Bible adaptation, published through his own publishing company, Redondo Komiks in 1968. The adaptation was serialized on a one every two week basis, 4-5 pages each [...]

Dec

4

The 3rd San Pablo City Comics Festival Photos and Video

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Waking up Saturday morning and seeing the sun shine all my worries about the day disappeared. Normally, I’m a worrier, but I just let it go. Whatever happens will happen. If it rains, whatever, I’ll just sing. lalala. It did drizzle a bit, but thankfully it was short and in the end, I think we [...]

Nov

29

Vinyl+Splash Event Raised 125,000 Pesos for the UN World Food Program!

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Last Saturday I was at Fully Booked at Bonifacio High Street to participate in the Vinyl+Splash, The Ultimate Collectibles and Comics Convention. However, the primary purpose of the event seemed to be a series of auctions of artwork donated by comics, street and vinyl artists to benefit the United Nations World Food program. At the [...]

Nov

28

Shying Away From Giving Talks

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Up until recently I’ve generally accepted invitations to give talks at schools and universities in Manila, but over the last year or so it’s become difficult for me to accommodate invitations for various reasons. The main reason is probably this: I had been assessing myself and my skill at giving talks, and after several years [...]

Nov

24

It’s a BIG Weekend for Comics In the Philippines!

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It’s a huge HUGE Weekend for comics in the Philippines! There will be a three day comics festival dubbed PICCAFEST or the Philippine International Cartoons, Comics and Animation Festival from November 25-27! This is their THIRD annual Festival in a row! PICCA’s Mission: “To act as a watershed international forum in the Philippines for cartoons, [...]

Nov

21

At KOMIKON, the 7th Annual Philippine Komiks Convention (UPDATED II!)

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The crowd at Komikon yesterday, right on top of this post, just to give you an idea of how crazy it was. I was taken quite by surprise by the sheer amount of people who showed up. Having gone to this thing for years, I have a fair idea of the amount of people who [...]

Nov

12

See you at the 7th Annual Komikon!

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This coming Saturday, November 19, is the 7th Annual Komikon, the largest comic book convention in the Philippines. And yep! I’ll be there the entire day so if you have anything you wanted signed or if you just wanted to talk, I’m game! Click for Larger Image Thanks to Komikon for making me a guest [...]

Nov

11

Help For Illustrator Bert Lopez at Komikon 2011

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Some two weeks ago, Filipino komiks illustrator Bert Lopez was featured on GMA 7′s charity program “Wish Ko Lang”. Bert was a successful komiks illustrator until he contracted leprosy and all his friends and family abandoned him. He has since been cured, but he has living a very destitute life, unable to work due to [...]

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