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Nov

15

Elmer #1 Japanese Translation

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Out of the blue a week or so ago, I was approached by a Japanese going by the name of Harukichi (he gave me his real name but I think he prefers to be called by his handle), who said he had bought and read ELMER and seeing that Elmer #1 was being offered for [...]

Jul

10

100 Araw ng Komiks: Johnny Balbona

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100 Araw ng Komiks (100 Days of Comics) is an online event organized for the purpose of spreading awareness of Philippine Komiks through Twitter, Facebook, DeviantArt, blogs and other online venues. Click here for the event page on Facebook. The Komikero Comics Journal will be posting everyday for the month of July news, opinions and [...]

Jul

4

100 Araw ng Komiks: Last Meow

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100 Araw ng Komiks (100 Days of Comics) is an online event organized for the purpose of spreading awareness of Philippine Komiks through Twitter, Facebook, DeviantArt, blogs and other online venues. Click here for the event page on Facebook. The Komikero Comics Journal will be posting everyday for the month of July news, opinions and [...]

Jul

3

100 Araw ng Komiks: Believe It… OR ELSE!

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100 Araw ng Komiks (100 Days of Comics) is an online event organized for the purpose of spreading awareness of Philippine Komiks through Twitter, Facebook, DeviantArt, blogs and other online venues. Click here for the event page on Facebook. The Komikero Comics Journal will be posting everyday for the month of July news, opinions and [...]

Jun

30

100 Araw ng Komiks: Flashpoint and Sterling Paper

Filed Under Comics Artists, Creating Comics, Filipino Artists, Online Comics, Philippine Comics | 7 Comments

100 Araw ng Komiks (100 Days of Comics) is an online event organized for the purpose of spreading awareness of Philippine Komiks through Twitter, Facebook, DeviantArt, blogs and other online venues. Click here for the event page on Facebook. The Komikero Comics Journal will be posting everyday for the month of July news, opinions and [...]

Apr

6

Banana Boogie by Ludwig L. Ilio

Filed Under Comics Artists, Online Comics, Philippine Comics | 8 Comments

Jingle Magazine was a legendary music and pop culture magazine published in the Philippines in the 70′s and 80′s. It spawned some of today’s most popular writers (Eric Gamalinda, Juaniyo Arcellana), directors (Lav Diaz), and even cartoonists (Deng Coy Miel). Back issues of this magazine sell for an astonishing P500-P2500 at Ebay Philippines. The cartoons [...]

Jul

12

Welcome Everybody!

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Hello and welcome to Komikero.com! I’m sure you heard about this website from somewhere, specially today. And so you went here, and here you are! Welcome! Thanks very much for giving me a bit of your time. This website is basically a regularly updated journal of the things I want to write about Philippine comics [...]

Jul

15

What More Is There To Say?

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See Cartoons by Cartoon by Mike Keefe – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com – Email this Cartoon

Jun

30

Cornelia!

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“Lasong Walang Kamandag” (Poison Without Venom) Written by Teresita Arce Cruz and Rico Bello Omagap Illustrated by Noly Panaligan Tagalog Klasiks #111, October 3, 1953 (Translated and colored by Gerry Alanguilan) I thought it would be nice, as an occasional exercise, to take a random panel from one of my old komiks, restore it, translate [...]

Jun

14

A Master Collaboration

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Harlan Ellison writes, Frank Miller draws and Bill Sienkiewicz inks. A dream collaboration you wouldn’t think in a million years could happen. But it did! It happened in December 1985 on the pages of Heroes For Hope, starring The X-Men, published by Marvel Comics. For three fateful pages, three colossal talents came together to create [...]

Apr

28

Andrew Drilon – A Different Kind of Filipino Comics Creator

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While most Filipino comics artists are making waves in mainstream superhero comics at the big companies like Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse, Andrew Drilon has been slowly and quietly making a name for himself as a fresh and innovative creator in the independent comix scene abroad as writer and artist. His latest short story, [...]

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 [...]

Feb

17

A Few Local Projects

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Even though I said I’m taking on more work from abroad this 2009, it looks like I won’t be abandoning the local comics scene completely as there are a few local comics I will be working on this year. Of course, there’s still TIMAWA that’s published monthly on the pages of The Buzz Magasin. Then [...]

Jan

28

Comics Career Interview + ELMER and Other Free Comics

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My interview at ComicsCareer.com is now up: http://www.comicscareer.com/?p=410 Thanks to Tom Spurgeon at the Comicsreporter.com and to Forbidden Planet UK for mentioning the free ELMER #1 download! If you’re just tuning in, the first issue of my self published comic book series ELMER is being offered for free! You can download a copy here. I’ve [...]

Jan

9

Pets ko, di na ma-reach.

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Boney, Milky and Eugene were featured in Animal Scene magazine in their October 2008 issue. I wasn’t able to get a copy of it since pretty much the whole of October I was laid up in bed sick and during November I was scampering to finish Elmer #4 on time. I guess I’ll just go [...]

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