Gerry Alanguilan draws our attention to an area of comics I must confess I know little about (and what little I do know is mostly learned from reading Gerry’s excellent blog), the publication of Doctor John A Lent’s The First One Hundred Years of Philippine Komiks and Cartoons: “For many years I’ve been writing on this blog about the desperate lack of readily available reference material on the history of Philippine Comics, and it’s looking like at the end of 2009 I will now be considered wrong. And that’s great! Finally, there are books that Filipinos can buy to see the works of Nestor Redondo, Francisco V. Coching, Alex Niño, Alfredo Alcala and all our great masters.” The book will be launched, appropriately enough, at the PICCA Festival (Philippine International Comics, Cartoons and Animation) on October 16th; PICCA itself runs from October 15th to 18th.
(some early Philippine Komiks art, shamelessly borrowed from Gerry’s blog, (c) unknown)
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
Comics and cartoons, Conventions and events