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Creating Heroes of Our Own

By Ruel S. De Vera
Philippine Daily Inquirer
05/14/2011

 "...Paolo brings a muscular sense of shadow and light to the black-and-white art of Book One. The setting is clearly a slightly dark, parallel version of our own Metro Manila. He makes the characters distinctive and rewards each with a unique voice. What makes Book One stand out further is that it may seem like your average heroes-fighting-bad guys title, but in truth, Paolo is writing a mystery full of secrets. It’s smart and super-powered."

Read the complete article HERE. 

The Filipino Heroes League

 

The Filipino Heroes League

Book One:  Sticks and Stones

Creator:  Paolo Fabregas

ISBN:  971-05450-4-3

B&W comic book
SRP: P200.00
 

Under-manned and under-funded,

the Filipino Heroes League does what it can

to fight against injustice.

It's tough being a super hero

but it's even tougher being a third-world super hero.

Available in all Pandayan Bookshops, National Book Store, Fully Booked and Bibliarch outlets 

Summer Komikon 2011

Metro Manila, 1 April 2011 - It's going to be a cool and refreshing summer with Summer Komikon 2011, a spin-off of the annual Philippine Komiks Convention!

For its third consecutive year, this local gathering of Filipino comics creators and enthusiasts will be held on April 16, 2011 from 10am to 7pm at an all-new venue: the Bayanihan Center along Pioneer St., Pasig City.

This year's theme is "Bayanihan: Komiks Moving Onwards" and the main highlights of the event include:

• the opening of the nominations for the 3rd Komikon Awards for Komikon 2011;
• exhibit and guest spotlight on women cartoonists;
• release of the first Summer Komikon Tabloid;
• screening of Animahenasyon 2007 and Animahenasyon 2008 winning entries;
• book launches of new comics titles (28 titles from the Indie Komiks Tiange);
• various comics-themed competitions;
• plus: surprise guests, contests and activities.

All of these for only a Php 100 entrance fee. What's more, the first 200 ticket buyers (presold at Comic Odyssey and during the event) will get a free Komikon Canvass Bag to put all your comics and merchandise goodies. Hold on to your tickets for a chance to win prizes at the Komikon Raffle throughout the day.

Exhibitors include Sacred Mountain Publishing, AKDA, Point Zero Comics, Digital Arts Chef (DAC), Polyhedron Comics, Anonymouse, JonasDiego.com, CoRe Studios, Kommix Veterans, CS Centrl, Electromagnetic Tentacle, Happy Lockjaw, Cadimus Prime, Sputnik Fantastik, Alamat and Visprint Publishing. Notable artists aside from our special women guests who will make an appearance include Tony de Zuniga, Pol Medina Jr., Elbert Or, Budjette Tan, Manix Abrera, Gilbert Monsanto, Carlo Vergara and Gerry Alanguilan.

The 3rd Summer Komikon is presented to you by Komikon, Inc. in partnership with PSICOM Publishing. It is also brought to you by Comic Odyssey (official store partner), Philippine International Cartoons, Comics, & Animation (PICCA), Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. (ACPI) and our Media Partners UR 105.9 and Bandera of Inquirer Publications. And special thanks to Love is in the Bag (Studio Studio), Lampara Publishing House and Glasshouse Graphics Inc.

For more information on the floor plan, schedule of activities and detailed comics release information, please visit www.komikon.org or email us at inquiry@komikon.org.

Support the Filipino Komiks industry. See you there!

Bob Ong's # 8!

"Ang Mga Kaibigan Ni Mama Susan"

Bob Ong's first ever horror will also be the first ever Filipino book to have a nationwide simultaneous release. It's also the author's first first-person narrative in fiction and Visprint's first use of creambook paper in its publications. Lots of firsts here. Be first yourself as you witness history this Bonifacio Day 2010!

Don't miss it!

November 30, 2010

National Bookstore, Fully Booked, Pandayan Bookshops & 101 Boutique

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29th National Book Awards for Graphic Literature

 

TRESE:  Mass Murders 

by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo

The Official Citation from the 2009 National Book Awards:

 Powerful, iconic characters comic book characters Darna , Zuma and Captain Barbell, among others, emerged fully-formed from the mind of Filipino comic creators. That creativity continues to this day, in all directions, in different ways. But in Trese, Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo have a stunningly original idea, swathed in the irresistible spookiness of our folklore and the edged mythology of our urban legends. Alexandra Trese, the enigmatic paranormal investigator and her lethal bodyguards the Kambal helps the police when encountering cases that just don’t make any sense of the normal kind. In the process, Tan and Baldisimo offers us a peek into the supernatural embedded into Metro Manila’s badly lit corners.

In the first volume, Trese: Murder on Balete Drive, we are introduced to Alexandra and her team, and the second volume, Trese: Unreported Murders, showed us one peculiar procedural after another. But it is in this third volume, Trese: Mass Murders, where we find out where and how Alexandra Trese came to be who and where she is. Instead of hemming us in, Trese: Mass Murders actually opens up another world of narrative possibilities.

The rabid fan following Trese has earned is impressive, and that only adds to the fact that in Trese, Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo has crafted a testament to the limitless capacity of the Filipino imagination, as well as one of the best Filipino comic books of all time.

It is for those reasons that Trese: Mass Murders is given the National Book Award for Graphic Literature.