preview magazine's creative "it list" 2012
in its october 2012 isssue, glossy lifestyle mag preview acknowledged indie comics as one of 2012's noteworthy publishing trends. they also included rob cham , the QBCCC crew , rommel estanislao , noel pascual , a.j. bernardo , and myself in their "creative it list" for 2012, "the who's who of up-and-coming talent in the culture scene"! says the blurb: click to zoom "We don't really have a proper comics industry anymore. The days of Darna and Captain Barbell are long gone, and it doesn't look like the economy is willing to support a return any time soon. But the comics fan looking for local flavor won't suffer a shortage of things to check out: The new breed of Filipino Komiks resembles the 'zines of the '90's, with crude black-and-white printing and stapled binding, But the content is great--most notable of the new creators is Macoy, whose books Ang Maskot, Operasyon , and School Run employ simple, cart...