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it would be difficult to overstate the effect sir gerry has had on today's pinoy comic book industry. he was uniquely suited to act as a guiding (if curmudgeonly) voice for pinoy komiks during its troubled transition from the old bangketa model to the dynamic multi-outlet market we have today. through his influential blog , message board (the now-defunct PKMB), and personal connections here and abroad, he helped gather around him the generation of komiks creators that would establish the "indie komiks" scene. a lot of people talked about reviving pinoy komiks back then, but i don't think anyone did more to actually bring that dream about than sir gerry. i stopped making komiks several years ago, and one of my last purchases at the time was this: inside were autobiographical stories about a couple of stray dogs he adopted and how one fell ill and died, and about how sir gerry first learned that his kidneys had begun to fail, the crisis that stemmed from that,...

this comic was a finalist in a recent comics-making contest held by the french embassy. the theme was "manila 2050: city of the future."

yes, reading and counting and other life skills , but also an appreciation of music and animation , and a deep love for silliness. the "milk song" gave my six-year-old self my first taste of melancholy, though i'll never be able to explain why. diversity and getting along. linda was the first "handicapped" (as was the term at the time) person i ever saw. being smart is a good thing. dealing with loss . and then there's kermit the frog. one of my earliest memories is an image of kermit that my mother had cut out of someplace and scotch-taped to the inside of my crib. today i've got kermit in my soul. from his "breaking news" reporter sketches i absorbed an exasperated yet ultimately hopeful world view, a sense of humor that hoped for the best and took the worst with a crumpled face but with dignity intact. i was a lonely kid, and like many lonely kids i found solace, instruction, and a sense of belonging in fictional worlds that i ...

i made a tumblr (late to that particular party, i know) for anyone who hasn't read my school run series. the first issue's already up and i'll be updating a page a day until it's caught up.

costumed do-gooder phoenix jones is retiring . My whole life has been about making a balance.. in the end, there is not a balance. I’ve seen it on the streets. I’ve seen what people do to each other. And I live with it every day. Every day I live with horrible, horrible things. And I think to myself, ‘I made a difference.’ But I didn’t make a difference.

my first comic convention in a while. i have much to learn, and relearn

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the story pitch i submitted to komiket's first philippine international comics festival made it into the finals, and i couldn't be happier. i'll be working with the awesome cy vendivil , who generously agreed to lend his talents.