flipgeeks interview
had a chat the other day with norby ela over at flipgeeks. we talked about the maskot movie, school run, and ricky lo. LOKAL GRIND: Macoy – Komiks & ‘Ang Maskot’ in Film
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video: budjette tan talks trese and his creative process
brought to you by the la salle students behind panelmag , an online magazine about pinoy comics. i especially enjoyed his comparison of a long-term comics writer-artist relationship to marriage.
WIPforIT interview!
i was this month's guest on hub pacheco and teddy pavon's WIPforIT podcast , the one and only podcast show covering the local pinoy indie komiks scene. we talked about the creation of ang maskot , indie komiks' 'growing pains', manga in malaysia, and my chinese descent (?). also we read out a few of the more entertaining answers to a komiks survey i did several months back (which i haven't properly tabulated yet). check out the podcast here , and the award-winning webcomic for which it is named here !
tan & baldisimo interview on rocket kapre
rocket kapre 's paolo chikiamco sat down with budjette tan and kajo baldisimo to discuss their recent national book awards win , trese fandom, and what it would take for them to quit their dayjobs and make comics full-time: Do you remember when it was that you first realized that you had a hit on your hands? That this was going to go beyond the convention circuit? BUDJETTE: I’m not sure of the exact tipping point of Trese. I was getting an inkling of it when I would spot the occasional review online. (Yes, yes, I Google “Trese” once in awhile.) It amazed me that people took the time to write reviews that read like someone’s thesis report. These were very detailed and passionate reviews about the stories. It was also great to get feedback from guys like Gerry Alanguilan and Marco Dimaano about the book early on. And then, when we released TRESE: MURDER ON BALETE DRIVE, me and Kajo were invited guests at the Mangaholix Con in SMX, where we sold 100+ copies. By that time, we k...
josel nicolas interview at rocket kapre
not an april fools joke! i had a short talk with comix wunderkind josel nicolas about his all-ages comic doc brick: balloon scientist problem solver , debuting in this month's kzone magazine. it's posted up now on paolo chikiamco's rocket kapre .
bill watterson's first interview in 20 years.
the calvin and hobbes creator talks about doing something cartoonists almost never do--retiring at the top of his game: By the end of 10 years, I’d said pretty much everything I had come there to say. If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now “grieving” for “Calvin and Hobbes” would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I’d be agreeing with them... I'm proud of the strip, enormously grateful for its success, and truly flattered that people still read it, but I wrote "Calvin and Hobbes" in my 30s, and I'm many miles from there. An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like everyone else. I think the deeper fans understand that, and are willing to give me some room to go on with my life. you tell 'em, bill. most of the "grievers" really just wanted more ...