Jul

15

“Pinoy Komiks” at St. Paul University, Manila

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Last July 10, 2010, I was invited to attend the freshmen initiation at the St. Paul University in Manila. The theme of their initiation was “Pinoy Komiks”, and I had been invited to give a talk on the history and the state of the Philippine comics industry. I did not hesitate to agree because more [...]

Jul

14

A Chance to Talk About Comics

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The popularity of the Hey, Baby! video (below), retitled “Lakas Tama ni Manong” on Facebook was great for it gave me the opportunity to talk about Philippine comics to a nationwide audience. For some reason, this video really took off online, and came to the point that it was even being shown on regular TV. [...]

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 [...]

Jun

28

Scenes from a Movie Screening

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Last night was the first public exhibition of the “Tin-tin, 15″ short film, directed by Lem Garcellano, which features a few Komikeros for actors including myself as “Bossing”, Jonas Diego, Johnny Danganan and Neil Amiel Cervantes as beerhouse patrons. “Tin-tin, 15″ is produced by Plan International to raise awareness of human trafficking, specifically trafficking of [...]

Jun

23

Tin-tin, 15 FREE Screening at Mogwai, June 27, 2010

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“Tin-tin, 15” will have its first public exhibition for FREE! at Mogwai in Cubao X at 9:00pm, June 27, 2010. Please check out the official movie site for more info, map, and RSVP. There will be at least three consecutive showings depending on how many people show up. Around 30 people can be accommodated at [...]

May

13

Tin-Tin, 15 Short Film

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During the first week of May, I was involved in making this short film on child trafficking and prostitution, directed by Lem Garcellano (Batibot) . I don’t think it’s a film for commercial purposes as it will be used for information rather than entertainment. I wrote a little bit about it here. Naturally, I made [...]

Apr

24

Jazz Maynard by Raule and Roger

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The other day I received a package in the mail from my Spanish comics writer friend Raule. In the package are three hardcover French translations of his comic book Jazz Maynard with artist Roger. Yes, these guys go by just one name. I have a one-name for myself, but Ilyn absolutely freaks out when I [...]

Apr

1

“Three Days” Short Film

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At 42 minutes, Three Days is a not so short film that my friends Maya Salas, Jonas Diego, Johnny Danganan, and dog Boney helped me make during periods when I wasn’t working on my comics stuff. Thanks guys! I shot it over the past couple of months, doing a few minutes here and there. Ok, [...]

Mar

20

Neil Gaiman and ME, Manila 2010

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View the set manually here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/komikero/sets/72157623529364161/ And of course I had to have video too! View on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPEjKoZFLQ Neil Gaiman’s Journal Neil Gaiman’s Twitter As I said in the video, Neil Gaiman is one of the very few writers I would take so much trouble to line up for and meet. I’m really [...]

Mar

16

How to Save Newspapers

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Stop the Presses: How to Save Newspapers by Ted Rall and David Essman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7qd8v8v2qk I saw this video via the Comics Reporter. The video is funny, but the subject matter not so much. The fate of newspapers is pretty grim. We don’t feel it yet here in the Philippines, but technologically advanced countries like the [...]

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

24

KomiksTrip Video by Flippish.com

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Taking you back a couple of weeks to KomiksTrip because Flippish.com did this really extraordinary video of the event: var flashvars = {}; flashvars.File = “http://www.flippish.com/flippishblog/Video/komikstrip.mp4″; flashvars.Mode = “ondemand”; flashvars.AutoPlay = “false”; var params = {}; params.allowFullScreen = “true”; params.allowScriptAccess = “always”; var attributes = {}; attributes.id = “bitgravity_player_6″; swfobject.embedSWF(stablerelease, “bg_player_location”, “600″, “400″, “9.0.0″, “http://bitcast-b.bitgravity.com/player/expressInstall.swf”, [...]

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

Filed Under Bold Star, COMICS CONVENTIONS, Comics Artists, Filipino Artists, Komikero Group, Video Blogs | 1 Comment

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 [...]

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