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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,...