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 thank you again to juno reyes and rappler for including aswang high in this list!

...It’s clear that Macoy’s writing and Cyril’s art style had the right synergy to produce the magic behind Aswang High .      thank you juno reyes and rappler for spreading the word!

   that's mel casipit, toto madayag, myself, and the legend pol medina jr., coming together to form team komikero, playing to win some money for komiket inc. you can watch the full episode here .   i wish i could say we gave a good account of ourselves, but in terms of entertainment value, there wasn't much we could do against four drag queens. we could've sketched up some scathing caricatures maybe, but the tv format just wouldn't allow for it. furthermore, the survey answers just weren't there for us that night.  i will never eat grilled tuna again.  

  i was invited by komiket to read an excerpt from aswang high at this year's MIBF, only the biggest publishing event in the land... jay ignacio was also there to read from his award-winning book, alandal , as was bambi amago, who read from her multi-award-winning doobiedoo asks . well, what i lacked in awards i made up for in animated slides!

for the past few weeks, i've been working with the immensely talented tristan yuvienco and the generous, awesome folks at SIKAP to develop a feature-length animated pitch for tristan's brainchild, "the flying tricycle." it's being pitched at this year's AYO Cebu as we speak and then again later this year at the annecy animation festival in france! *fingers crossed*

my kids grew up watching me make komiks, and at some point they started making their own, without prompting or instruction from me. eventually i redrew some of those comics (with permission) and released them at komikon alongside the original creators:   and then, as befits my bloodline, a decade went by without any new issues. BUT then sometime after puberty, they started fooling around on my old drawing tablet, and lo and behold, they maketh pinups, and it was good. so i offered to sell some of them at my komikon table this past weekend.   and people bought them, like mike! thanks mike. (mike has a new comic book out, check it ) people also bought copies of aswang high...all the copies i brought, in fact! cy and i also received our very first fanart, ever. i was touched. thanks marco! you had some great questions! komikon was held at the UP college of fine arts gallery, and there were a bunch of greek-style statues scattered around the venue. it was the most number of peni...