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sat down with komikon's jon zamar and my partners in crime ardie aquino and cy vendivil to talk about making komiks with other people, and how collabs are basically like relationships: the give-and-take, the need for constant communication, and the chance of things getting toxic.    

 thanks to PICOF for taking my books with them to the frankfurt book fair!  

  ASO, written by myself and aj bernanrdo, and illustrated by aj, is a dystopian action adventure set in an alternate Philippines where players compete in a brutal Pokemon GO-like game where you track down"enemies of the state" in exchange for real-life rewards. Coming soon from PICOF !

1- overnight success takes a long time the first issue of trese the comic came out in 2005, SIXTEEN YEARS ago. it was indie as indie gets: a photocopied comic put out by two guys at a comics convention. no publisher, no facebook page, nothing. basicallly all these guys started out with were talent, an idea, and photocopying money. then the indie sold well enough to attract a publisher, and with that came something completely unquantifiable yet immeasurably important: mainstream respectability. and after THAT came acknowledgement from the local establishment in the form of awards, news features, merch. it's important to note that throughout all of this, tan and baldisimo kept churning out content with consistency and quality. over a thousand pages, on time, for over a decade. and then they found a producer. who shipped the IP around for years before finally landing the netflix deal. so that, to my understanding, was trese 's road to netflix, each step only made possible by the ...