Tag Archive | "Philippines"

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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Trese wins at the National Book Awards

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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Great news for Filipino comics creators Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo: their well-received graphic novel Trese has won at the National Book Awards. Budjette notes that they had been nominated back in the 2008 NBA and didn’t win, despite being the only finalist for the graphic novel category (an odd state of affairs explained here). [...]

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Filipino Art in American comics

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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(cover art to Hiwaga Komiks #1, 1950) The Kitty’s Pryde site has an interesting article up, the first part of a look at a history of contributions of Filipino artists to the American comics scene. I always find these sorts of articles interesting – as a kid reading Brit comics like Battle, 2000 AD etc [...]

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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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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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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 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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