Jun

30

Pilgrimage to Calamba

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Calamba, Laguna is the place where Jose Rizal was born, and the house he was born and grew up in still stands today. I wanted to visit the house, which has since become the “Rizal Shrine” which had been restored and preserved. We made a family outing of it, with Ilyn’s mom, sister in law [...]

Jun

29

Philippine Comics Creators: YOU HAVE RIGHTS!

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Reading things like this is very distressing. I’ve talked about things like this once in a while in this blog, trying to make readers here aware of the things they should know about being comic book creators in the Philippines.
Philippine komiks is in a turbulent period of transition. Old practices are slowly, and painfully, giving [...]

Jun

25

Philippine Inquirer Interview

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Thanks to my old pal Oliver Pulumbarit, who is now, among other things, a writer for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, I am part of an ensemble interview on the current issues of the Philippine comics industry.
Check out the interview here:
Rediscovering the “komiks” Wellspring
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/
Oliver wrote of a clarification of the article on his blog.
I want to [...]

Jun

25

Komiks.ph: Philippine Comics Portal

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Antonio Garrovillo has brought me news of a new Philippine Comics Portal, http://komiks.ph. In his words, the site is built “…with the intention of making it a portal and promoter of news about all things related to local comics to the general online public.”
And I consider this a really good thing. Something like it was [...]

Jun

24

Toycon, Komikon 2007 Plans

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Several people have asked why I wasn’t at the recent Toycon. I really didn’t plan on coming this year. In fact, I didn’t attend other comics events recently like the one in Mall of Asia, and I most likely won’t go to the Sci-Fi con as well. I just decided to concentrate on just working, [...]

Jun

21

My Own Font! Plus Humanis Rex! and Amazing Dr. Rizal

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I’ve always wanted to hand letter my own comics. And I wanted to letter them on the original artwork because I believe it to be an integral part of the art of a comic book page. And I still believe it. It’s something I will apply to certain special projects like ELMER, which I will [...]

Jun

20

Nar De Mesa 1933-2007

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Komiks editor KC Cordero is reporting that veteran Filipino komiks illustrator Nar De Mesa has passed away. Nar has been known for his clean style used appropriately to romance stories for a variety of publications.
Below is a cover that he did for Sinderela Komks in 1969.
I met him briefly in January 2004 and [...]

Jun

19

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SER!

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Jun

18

A New Monitor

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My old monitor had been going screwy since late last year. It developed a slight flicker on top of the screen which disappeared after the monitor warmed up a bit. The flicker disappeared after longer and longer periods of time, until it never went away at all.
I’ve had to resort to shrinking the screen a [...]

Jun

16

Amazing Dr. Rizal, Webcomics, and an Auction!

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I can finally make the announcement that “The Marvelous Adventures of the Amazing Dr. Rizal” will begin serializing in FUDGE Magazine beginning in August, with two full color pages a month! I’ve been receiving a lot of feedback about this series from this blog and from pages I posted at DeviantArt, and like [...]

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