Aug

31

A Visit To Manila

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Trips to Manila seem to be something I’m doing less and less. I lived there for 15 years, rarely coming home to San Pablo (only doing so to visit my late grandmother, grandfather and brother during November 1). After college I began working and I was able to come home on weekends. When I quit [...]

Aug

30

Graphic Classics, Topak, Tony De Zuñiga

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I’d forgotten to mention a bit of work that I did that were recently released, both from Graphic Classics. The H.P. Lovecraft volume was released a couple of months ago, and is actually a 2nd edition of a volume released some years ago where I contributed an illustration adapting a passage from Lovecraft’s poem “Fungi [...]

Aug

29

Let Me Get This One Thing (Actually Several Things) Straight…

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The komiks industry is just about to be revived (just a couple of weeks left), and I have to say I’m really excited at the thought of seeing these komiks again on our streets and in the hands of the Pinoy. This is really what we’ve all wanted from the start, and I think every [...]

Aug

27

A Different Filipina

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Francisco V. Coching
Pilipino Komiks #286, May 17, 1958
Comics are rife with images of women, and Philippine komiks are no exception. Probably too much exposure is given to the more “physical” aspects of women, specially Filipinas. It’s no crime to show Filipinas as beautiful and attractive, but certainly, it’s no crime to show how much they [...]

Aug

24

TIMAWA, Amazing Dr. Rizal Updates

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It looks like I’ll be doing new Timawa stories far sooner than I expected. I great opportunity fell on my lap to do Timawa the way I want to, and I really have to have a go at it. It’s going to be tight, work wise, but that’s allright. I had set aside a bit [...]

Aug

22

TIMAWA Online!

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Timawa is my somewhat serious stab at doing a proper “superhero”. It was not my first attempt, as I was involved in the still in limbo but completed LAKAN. I created a superhero for that called “Katutubo” who could absorb tectonic and volcanic energies of the earth and use it for a variety of things [...]

Aug

22

Playing Games

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Back in the late 90’s, I was what you could consider a “gamer”. A computer gamer, at least. I was right there when the newest games would come out and play them. My favorites are the First Person Shooters (FPS) like Unreal, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Half Life, Blood 2, Thief (1 and 2). [...]

Aug

18

And Speaking of Roots

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Roots is something I mentioned in my previous post, not literal, but figurative. But they’re as strong as any on centuries old balete tree. I cannot explain the attachment I have for my hometown of San Pablo City, here in Laguna, and how, having lived in Manila for 15 straight years and having gone to [...]

Aug

17

Comics Concerns Around Asia

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It’s very interesting that several countries around Asia are having similar concerns as the Philippines when it comes to their respective comics industries.
Critics say revival of local comics needs better content
A. Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
August 13, 2007
“Hikmat said better education — a classic problem that not only hampered Indonesian comic writers, but also [...]

Aug

16

Book Binge at the Booksale

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Me and Ilyn have a monthly getaway to our local Booksale, usually near the beginning of every month when new stocks arrive. Lacking a bona fide bookstore here in San Pablo, Booksale is our next best thing to finding materials to read. I’ve always liked the Booksale chain of book and magazine stores because it’s [...]

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