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.”
“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.
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.
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