Tag Archive | "Gerry Alanguilan"

An Elmer sequel?

Friday, April 1, 2011

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One of my fave creators, Gerry Alanguilan, may be returning to the world of his sentient chickens living among humans tale, Elmer, he announces on his blog, putting his oft-blogged work on Amazing Doctor Rizal on hold for now. It seems Gerry thinks his human figure drawing isn’t up to scratch but as he discovered [...]

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Gerry Alanguilan on creating Elmer

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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The always interesting Filipino artist Gerry Alanguilan has edited a series of video diaries made back during 2006 while he was working on the second part of his brilliant Elmer (now collected by Slave Labor Graphics, much recommended) into one 25 minute long piece, in Tagalog and English (he apologises for lack of subtitles in [...]

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Philippines comics

Monday, September 20, 2010

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Gerry Alanguilan blogs about moves by the government in the Philippines to apparently offer more support to the local comics industry, including proposals to offer tax breaks for publishers and making a certain percentage of educational books in schools be in comics form (which as well as helping the industry would doubtless help engender more [...]

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“I feel like chicken tonight” – Gerry Alanguilan talks Elmer

Monday, September 6, 2010

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Gerry Alanguilan may be best known to a lot of US and UK comics readers for his work alongside the likes of Leinil Francis Yu for Marvel, but he’s been extremely busy in his home comics scene in the Philippines, with work across a range of subjects, being involved in the comics convention scene and [...]

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Best of the Year 2009 – Gerry Alanguilan

Monday, December 14, 2009

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Yes, once again December has not only crept up on us but is now busy hurtling past us (really, where does the time go?) leading inevitably to Christmas and the end of the year and of course that means its time to commence our traditional Best of the Year features, where we ask a variety [...]

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Gerry and Johnny talk up the San Pablo Comics Festival

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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Comics creator and prolific video poster Gerry Alanguilan has a new short video up talking up the San Pablo Comics Festival with his friend Johnny: “One week to go before the San Pablo Comics Festival! Are we panicking? Strangely enough, no. No matter what happens on the day, whether we go belly up or it’s [...]

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Conan art for sale

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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Gerry Alanguilan is auctioning some original Ernie Chan Conan artwork to benefit the disaster relief funds attempting to help people caught up in the dreadful flooding in the Philippines. On his blog Gerry also reports that the upcoming fifth annual Komikon event will also include an auction to raise funds komikeros affected by the flooding, [...]

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Philippines disaster

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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I’m sure we’ve all seen the dreadful reports on the news following the awful floods in the Philippines, with much loss of life and huge damage to homes and infrastructure, with many people now homeless and displaced. I heard from our friend Gerry Alanguilan today and I’m glad to report that he is okay, although [...]

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The First 100 Years of Philippine Komiks and Cartoons

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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You might remember last week Gerry Alanguilan pointed us in the direction of an upcoming book by Doctor John A Lent, The First One Hundred Years of Philippine Komiks and Cartoons, which launches at the PICCA Festival in the Philippines next month; well now (again via Gerry) here’s a link to a preview of some [...]

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The First One Hundred Years of Philippine Komiks and Cartoons

Monday, September 14, 2009

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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 [...]

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