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so last saturday was the first-ever international read comics in public day , and webcomickers teddy pavon and hub pacheco did this thing to celebrate: teddy made a papercraft model of eli, the hero of their work in progress webcomic, and hub took it around the city for a wonderfully geeky photoshoot. see the rest of the pics here and read their comic here

so i did a one-page illustration for UNO's july issue, the one with aubrey miles' boobs on the cover. it was a high-concept "wordless" issue: images would tell the stories instead of fat chunks of text. my bit was supposed to be a film review or essay, in pictures, about four major hollywood releases coming out that month. apol st. maria and manix abrera also did one-pagers.

by brian azzarello and lee bermejo: click to embiggen. via

get it at sputnik comics in cubao x for only P15! should also be available at comic odyssey robinson's galleria by this saturday.

i was sitting at the komikon booth when one of the white-uniformed security guards walked past, holding a sheet of bond paper in his right hand. it was partially rolled up, each end carefully tucked between thumb and forefinger so there would be no creases in the middle. he stopped briefly to unfurl the sheet and glance at what was written inside--a pencil sketch of his own likeness. he lifted his head and looked around as though slightly alarmed, then walked a few more steps, stopped, and peered again at his portrait. after several heartbeats he began walking again and i lost sight of him.

My goddaughter took my copy of Taal Volcano monster vs Evil Space Paru Paro bec my dad read it to her like it was a bedtime story. And the artwork was extremely engaging & child friendly :) via

forgot to upload these: bayan knights getting some hero tv facetime. the devanta takip silim i told you about yesterday--"best in filipino komiks" cosplay winner. plus, i loved these pics from meganon comics' fb page:

my haul this year includes some priceless original art from dj legaspi and mel casipit . thanks guys! i got to sit at the komikon booth (thanks to jon zamar, syeri baet and the rest of the komikon peeps!). that's gio paredes at the right and lico reloj at upper left--his fifty peso ninja was the very first indie i bought at the first komikon back in '05. in between is markus of planetmarkus.com , who was kind enough to mind our tables for us while we walked around and stuff. being a comics blogger, he was almost as knowledgeable about our stuff as we were! it was a pleasure to see entire families trooping to the con. feedback from children regarding school run 2's brutal zombie attack scene ranged from "it was cool!" to "meh, i read 4chan so nothing new" to "i got scared". the rj ledesma was there. he bought a couple of my comics and twittered about them . ZOMG! 0_0 salamat boss RJ! speaking of showbiz, a hero tv camera crew came looking ...

MCC is in a few hours... will be releasing school run #2 there (it should probably be called #1.5, it's a really short half-chapter). look for me at the komikon table, or the indie go! valley, or walking around. i'll sell the damn comics out of a box if i have to. if you can't make it to the MCC, i dropped off several copies of school run #2 at sputnik comics. only P15!