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 it, and then color it. [...]

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, “What [...]

Feb

19

You Would Want to Own It

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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 read [...]

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 there’s [...]

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 done this not only [...]

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 [...]

Jan

1

Happy New Year from 1965!

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Espesyal Komiks #277, January 4, 1965
Cover Art by Rudy Nebres (signed)

IPE by Mar and Pat
(Mars Ravelo and Pat Justimbaste)
Happy New Year Everyone!

Dec

23

UNANG LABAS

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“Unang Labas” is a blog I only just found out about, run by Steve Santos. It has an extraordinary amount of scans from old Philippine comics, many with complete segments, and many “Part 1″ (Unang Labas) segments.
Since it’s a blog that doesn’t list an archive list, I can’t tell when the blog began, but its [...]

Dec

22

Merry Christmas Everybody!

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Digging through my big vault of komiks (actually just a few plastic boxes in the living room), I found this issue of Espesyal Komiks from 1956. It’s a special Christmas issue and typical of Christmas themed komiks of this era, it contains several complete Christmas short stories in color.
One of the stories I particularly liked [...]

Nov

23

Komikon 2008

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By 12 noon it was already quite difficult to go around. There were that many people. I don’t have a headcount, but it’s quite plain to anyone who was there last year that this year’s crowd was just insane. I’ve had little opportunity to go around myself as I was almost completely tied to my [...]

Aug

27

The New Komikero Dot Com!

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The new Komikero dot com is now up and running! It took a couple of days, but I felt I had to do it now because I’ll be very busy the coming next month or so and I wouldn’t have been able to take care of it then.

The new site has an all new [...]

Jun

2

Eugene and Coffee

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It’s a been a year, almost to the day, that my dog Eugene, died. I didn’t talk about it on this blog because I find it uncomfortable to talk about very personal things here. Much of that personal stuff I keep offline and between family and close friends. But I couldn’t help express that grief [...]

Dec

31

My 2007. I Hated It.

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In my earlier post I mentioned that it would be my last update for 2007. It turns out I had something more to say with only one day to go before 2008. I want to get all this out of my system before a new year comes rolling along so I can talk about something [...]

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