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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 [...]

Dec

3

The 3rd San Pablo Comics Festival, December 3, 2011 (UPDATED!)

Filed Under Comic Book Signings, COMICS CONVENTIONS, Elmer, Filipino Artists, Komikero Group, My Art, My Comics, Philippine Comics | 2 Comments

The 3rd San Pablo City Comics Festival is happening TODAY!! See you there! Click for Super Large Image YES! The 3rd San Pablo City Comics Festival is finally happening. You may recall the first festival happened in 2003 at the Mariño Residence along Sampalok Lake. The second one in 2009 at Lion’s Club, also along [...]

Nov

29

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

Filed Under Comic Book Signings, Comics Artists, COMICS CONVENTIONS, Elmer, Filipino Artists, Philippine Comics, Photographs, Video Blogs | 5 Comments

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

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!)

Filed Under Bold Star, Comic Book Signings, Comics Artists, COMICS CONVENTIONS, Elmer, Filipino Artists, My Art, My Comics, Philippine Comics, Photographs, Video Blogs | 11 Comments

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

19

KOMIKON 2011 is Today! (UPDATED)

Filed Under Bold Star, Comic Book Signings, COMICS CONVENTIONS, Elmer, Filipino Artists, My Art, My Comics, Philippine Comics, Video Blogs | 2 Comments

Spending the day getting ready for the 7th Annual KOMIKON, the Philippine Komiks Convention. I can’t believe it’s already seven years running. Not only is this thing still going strong, it’s even expanded to include a special Summer Komikon every May or April for the last couple of years. That’s two KOMIKONs a year! That’s [...]

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 [...]

Oct

19

The Next Big Komiks Event: GTMACCON 2011!

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Click for Larger Image The next big Komiks event of the year, GTMACCON 2011 comes this Saturday, October 22 at SM San Lazaro. Tickets are available at Comic Odyssey branches. This event is unique in that it’s the very first komiks convention that features a cosplay event that would feature only creator owned, Filipino indie [...]

Oct

4

The BIGGEST Komiks Event of the Year!

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Click for Larger Image The biggest komiks event of the year, The Komikon 2011, or the 7th Annual Philippine Comics Convention is next month, November 19, 2011 at the Bayanihan Center in Pasig. I’ll be on hand the entire day selling Elmer (2nd Edition), Where Bold Stars Go To Die, Umlauts and Atom Bombs #1, [...]

Sep

30

October Komiks Events! (UPDATED!)

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Right off the bat on October 1, 2011 (That’s TODAY!), The Second Cebu Comics Convention is being held at the University of the Philippines, Cebu. Click on this page for more info. Event Page on Facebook. I wish they would update their official site though, at least for the benefit of those not on Facebook. [...]

Sep

28

How Do I Find Work at Marvel and DC Comics?

Filed Under Comics Artists, COMICS CONVENTIONS, Creating Comics, Filipino Artists | 8 Comments

One of the most frequent questions I get from aspiring artists is, “How do I find work at Marvel and DC comics?” It’s a fair question because it’s something I myself asked many years ago when I wanted to start drawing comics. Having worked in the industry now for almost 20 years, and having worked [...]

Aug

8

Wipe Out

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Guys… apologies for the lack of updates. The trip to San Diego had been extraordinarily exhausting and it’s taken me at the very least two weeks to almost fully recover. There were days back there that I literally couldn’t stand up. But I’ll be back posting regularly soon, and once again begin posting my “100 [...]

Jul

28

My San Diego Comic-con Experience, 2011

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Going to San Diego, California for the Comic-con this year was probably the last thing on my mind last April. I did somewhat feel in 2010 that I ought to go in 2011, but looking seriously at my finances, I knew it wouldn’t be possible. It became more obvious when I browsed for plane tickets [...]

Jul

19

My San Diego Comic Con 2011 Signings and Panels Schedule (UPDATED!)

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Comic-con is literally here, and I’m off to San Diego to attend the event for the first time in 12 years. The last time I went (1999), it was already a mind blowing affair. I was already blogging back then, but well, “blog” as a word hadn’t been invented yet ( I think). I just [...]

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