Mar

30

PILIPINO KOMIKS vs FILIPINO KOMIKS

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In an unprecedented act of utter cluelessness, Atlas Publications, publisher of defunct komiks title Pilipino Komiks, has served a cease and desist order to Rising Star Printing Enterprise to stop publication of the recently successful Filipino Komiks #1.
The notice states:
“The use of “Filipino Komiks” in your publications is a clear case of trademark infringement and [...]

Mar

29

Rudy Florese’s ORAS MO NA! Begins Today!

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Rudy Florese’s ORAS MO NA! Begins today! Click on the thumbnail row above to start reading.
Part 2 will be uploaded a day early next week, on Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Me and Ilyn will be retreating once again into the mountains for the Holy Week, and won’t be back until Easter. It’s the time of [...]

Mar

27

Rudy Florese, Oras Mo Na! Writer and Artist

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Rodolfo Obrero Florese was born on April 20, 1946 in Sto. Domingo, Nabua Camarines Sur, Philippines.
Artistically inclined at an early age, he wrote, drew, lettered, colored and even bound his very first comic book Argado when he was 13 years old. A few years later, at 17, he would begin his professional career as a [...]

Mar

26

Oras Mo Na Cover

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Rudy Florese’s ORAS MO NA! begins this Thursday, March 28.
Compared to many Filipino komiks serials of the 70’s and 80’s which had hundreds of parts (each part is 4 pages), Oras Mo Na is relatively short at 33 parts. Rudy preferred writing stories that were short, to the point, and have definite endings. [...]

Mar

23

I Loved The Ochlocrat

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Looking over a copy of Ochlocrat, a comic book I worked on in 2001, I can’t help but smile.
I remember working on that character, this crazy fella with a mean streak who gets his in the end, and I remember how much fun I had. The late Doug Miers wrote this story, and his early [...]

Mar

22

Komiks Covers at Nostalgia Manila

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Nostalgia Manila begins a weekly segment featuring komiks covers in cooperation with this site. The covers go up every Thursday. A rare cover for defunct comic book REX KOMIKS is currently featured, from the KC Cordero collection, including a really funky movie poster from the time.
If you’re a Filipino who has fond memories of the [...]

Mar

22

Return to the Judges House

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Four years ago, I adapted a short story by Bram Stoker, “The Judges House” for Graphic Classics. The work was very interesting. There was no script. I was simply handed two versions of the short story, one version was the full short story, and another was a condensed version by my editor, Tom [...]

Mar

21

This Was My 300

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When I was very young, I think I couldn’t have been older than eight, me and my classmates in grade school went to watch a movie. I remember it being part of our school activities because we had our teacher with us. I also remember us walking from school to a movie house in town, [...]

Mar

21

Rudy Florese’s Oras Mo Na!

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Rudy Florese’s ORAS MO NA! will begin serialization on this site beginning Thursday, March 29, 2007, four pages a week as it was originally released. “Oras Mo Na!” is one of the few stories that Rudy wrote, drew and lettered for various Philippine publications from the late 70’s to the mid 80’s.
In the US, he [...]

Mar

19

Family Interlude

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Yesterday I was with Ilyn at her old home in San Nicolas here in San Pablo to visit her family. Her mom’s brood of sisters and aunts have a compound on which they each have their own house. I brought the camera and took some shots around the compound. There is a water well [...]

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