This brilliant new golden age of Filipino comics has produced talents clearly ready to break out and conquer a new audience. Unleashed at October’s 2012 Komikon, Aaron Felizmenio’s graphic novel “Gwapoman 2000 Book 1: Ang Huling Baraha” (Frances Luna III Illustration Firm, Manila, 2012, 132 pages) is proof positive that the writer/artist is a standout in the local comics scene. Here’s why.
“Trese Night Gallery,” the first one-man show of Kajo Baldisimo, artist of the award-winning graphic novel “Trese,” is ongoing till Sunday at the Crucible Gallery, 4/F SM Megamall, Ortigas.
It was one of the more striking transformations in any personal filmography. In the 2003 ensemble film “Love Actually,” Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro played Karl, a handsome, sweetly shy tech guy in the early stages of an office romance with Laura Linney’s Sarah. Then, in a truly astonishing change, Santoro was unrecognizable but utterly unforgettable as the grotesquely pierced, inhumanly tall, power-mad god king Xerxes in the kinetic historical action epic “300.”
I AM IN rest and recreation mode, and free to draw anything I fancy. It turned out to be a GRAPHIC NOVEL WITHOUT A PLOT AND WITHOUT A POINT.
Second Installment of Graphic Novel with No Plot and No Point. During my R and R I drew the second part of how I perceived animals were prototyped in some celestial realm. In here is a creature, an Incomplete Turtle (turtle-to-be). An overlarge squid is dripping next to him. The squid is all out of proportion to its importance (as a supplier of ink for black paella.)
As exlained in the last episode, the cat is not included among the 12 animals in the zodiac. The rat had pushed the cat off the ox’s back on which they had both hitched a ride. And so the cat drowned.
IT has taken seven years, but award-winning Filipino comic book creator Arnold Arre finally has another graphic novel that he...
Harper Lee's classic novel is to be adapted into a graphic novel that has been endorsed by the estate of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Succinctly directed, though a bit too expository
Beastie Boys have revealed details of a forthcoming book that will be part-memoir, part-cookbook and part-graphic novel.
