Good news? Bad news?

Please be advised that our titles for release for 2009 has already been filled-up and closed.

Expect the following titles in your suking bookstores by the first quarter of the year:

- Kikomachine Komix Blg. 5 "Alab Ng Puso Sa Dibdib Mo'y Buhay!"

- Trese No. 3, the third and last (???) installment

- Bob Ong's [surprisa!!!]

- A horror/suspense novel from Visprint's newest author, G. M. Coronel

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We have opened 2 more slots for the 2010 release to NEW visprint authors/creators. Interested parties, see our Submission Guidelines here.

Reminder though, the list do get filled-up pretty fast.

Yey! Komikon na naman!

Ika-4 Filipino Komiks Convention
November 22, 2008 (10 a.m. to 8 p.m.)
UP Bahay ng Alumni, Diliman Quezon City
Entrance Fee: Php 50

The 4th Filipino Komiks Convention aims to bring together comic book artists/groups and publishers in a venue where they could present their talents, works and services to the public. It will showcase the creations of Filipino artists from various genres and themes and give tribute to the creators and their creations.

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VISPRINT booth will be located at E24 - along the Exhibitors Area, and near the Guest Artists area.

See you there!

5 stages of writing your graphic novel

from the CarVer:

Graphic Novel Training

Here's something you can do to jumpstart the realization of an ambition--creating a graphic novel.

Trese under investigation

Alexandra Trese may have well found her match (or rival?) in Ruel De Vera. If Trese is to investigating and solving unearthly crimes, De Vera is to unearthing author*/creator histories and behind-the-scene/pages details of locally published reading treasures.

Read his latest accomplished case: "Supernatural Storytelling":

MANILA, Philippines -Almost from the very beginning, Budjette Tan has been surrounded by the unusual. “When I was a newborn baby, my parents moved into what turned out to be a haunted house,” he explains. “The ghosts were seen by my yaya and my uncles. My parents didn’t believe in such things, until one summer day after my mom gave me a bath. She said the right side of my face suddenly wrinkled up—that it looked like the face of an old man. She prayed over me until I became normal again.” Psychics were summoned and a séance held. “The psychics told the spirits that they had to move on to the next plane. The haunting stopped after some time.” [continue reading here]

* Students doing thesis on books (especially the locally published ones) or even simple book reviews should keep his name in mind. A must in their reference list and bibliography.

Kudos to Carlos "Siege" Malvar!

SPEECHLESS is a unique international performance poetry project, and starting in October, Apples & Snakes and the British Council Literature Department will take Speechless around the UK. The project will tour eight venues in the UK and aims to foster the interaction between the poets and young people in Britain - specifically the Diaspora - through community and university workshops.
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Speechless brings together new poetry by five writers from across South East Asia and four brilliant UK-based poets on the theme of freedom of expression in a unique new multi-lingual spoken word show.
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Funded in part by Arts Council England, each performance features a 10 minute selection from: Priya K (Malaysia), Siege Malvar (Philippines), Pooja Nansi (Singapore), Liu Liang Yen (Taiwan), Da Thao Phuong (Vietnam) and UK artists Francesca Beard, Malika Booker, Aoife Mannix and Jacob Sam-La Rose, based around the theme of freedom of expression.


*Carlos Malvar is the author of visprint's "ROLES" a not quite unreal novel.