Melon #2

Thanks to the Happy Lockjaw peeps for inviting me again to contribute to their pinup zine. Please do get a copy at Komikon this Saturday. HENSHIN!

Click here to see my Melon#1 contribution.

Melon #2

A few more touch ups & I am done...

My contribution for Melon #2. Pick up the Happy Lockjaw peeps awesome pinup zine at the upcoming Komikon!

My Melon #1 piece...

Pedro Gil

A (WIP) page from a new strip that is included in the updated ???#1.

The reprints of ???#1 & #2 will not be available at this Saturday's Komikon Indieket. Sleepless nights due to my wife's pregnancy contractions have been sapping all my energy for the past few weeks. As much as I love making comics, my wife & unborn-no-name-baby-boy come first. Priorities! 

2nd Printings!

Attention!

Will be reprinting issues #1 & #2 of ???, some time within the week... I hope. For ???#1, I've added some of the strips that I have been posting on this blog, plus 4 or so new pages (if I can finish them). The comic is now 7% more "random"! Here is the cover, which will be printed on colored paper. Hooray!

???#1, 2nd print

Also, fixed some things for #2. Particularly the lyrics to the Bob Dylan song. My wife is now happy!

???#2, 2nd print

The comics will be available at Josel Nicolas' table (buy his stuff!) :)

November Komikon 2011!

Happening tomorrow (November 19, 2011). Click here for a map to the venue.

The QBCCC Volume 2 will not be released at the event, sadly. We got sidetracked by plenty of things but it will still come out this year hopefully. The QBCCC crew will still be at the 'Kon though, so please do drop by our table & browse / buy our wares.

Was also unable to finish the second issue of my auto-bio komix, ???. Here's a preview...

Komikon 2011 komik releases from Macoy's blog! See you tomorrow!

Post-Summer Komikon 2011 Post...

First off! congrats to the Komikon guys for the swanky new digs they provided.

ok... the QBCCC table. we sold most of our stuff. yey!

the very cute QB peeps. from left to right, Josel Nicolas, Jim Faustino (yey! Jim is a real person!), some hairy dude with a red bag & AJ Bernardo.

got a 100 peso sketch (for a cause) of The Thing (in the new FF costume) from Harvey Talibao.

sold 8 copies of ???#1. thank you 8 persons who bought ??? & QBCCC Vol.1 as well! only got a few komiks. will review them soon. fun Komikon! yey! that is all.

Summer Komikon 2011

No QB Volume 2 sadly, but the QB crew will be there. i will be bringing copies of ???#1 as well. if anybody's interested...

there will also be other stuff on the QB table. so please drop by & check them out. check everything out at the 'Kon. Komiks!

click here for more Komikon stuff...

Komik Events - Past & Future

DELAYED REACTION: Komikon 2010 was crazy! the place was packed! and of course the debut issue of The QBCCC finally came out! seeing it as an actual half-A4-photo-copied-komik was a bitter sweet moment. Josel, Mervs & all the contributors, congratulations to all of us! WE WANT REVIEWS!!!

Very much enjoyed my first time participating, albeit as a squatter. had a great time hanging out at the table while selling stuff (Josel Nicolas, Tilde Acuña & Carljoe Javier many thanks!). met some of the QBCCC contributors. got some komiks, not as plenty as before but got some really quality stuff. got a shirt (thanks Mervs!). got sick afterwards. fun!

Still not finished reading some of the stuff i got, but here are the good stuff so far:
- The El Bimbo Variations by Adam David
- Windmills 3 by Josel Nicolas
- Askals & Noisy Blood by Dodo Dayao & Bong Leal
- WIP vol.1 by Hub Pacheco & Teddy Pavon
- School Run 3 by Macoy

Check out some of the other komik / semi-komik events happening before the year ends:

Sputoniku No Koibito!!!

The El Bimbo Variations & The Kobayashi Maru of Love are both wonderful books. buy them & meet the guys who wrote them. buy Josels Windmills too! copies of the QBCCC will probably be available for sale here as well.

Better Living Through Xeroxography

Plenty of books, komix, zines & other stuff for sale made by very very talented people. the QB crew will be here.

Will try compiling & publishing my dumb strips in time for the Xeroxography event. need to add more strips tho. so many things to do, so little time...

Singil (Revised & Finished)

Two days to go before Komikon & we are finally (!!!) finished with the 1st volume of The QBCCC. of to the printers we go!

Did some last minute changes to my contribution (thanks to Adam & Josel for their inputs). mah 1st komix story is done. me. happy. yey.

here is a preview of the first page...



Singil is a 9 page, wordless / silent, crime story viewed in the first person. will post the original draft soon. buy the komix first! :)

Komik releases at the Kon...
- from Macoy's blog
- from Mr. Gerry A.'s blog

The QBCCC Vol.1 UPDATES!!!

Volume 1 is now divided into 2 zines! we have new people on board as well. here are the covers (both by Mervin Malonzo)...





the pink / blue logo on the cover is actually a dust jacket / bookmark that comes with the book. so yey free bookmark!

only 5 days to go before Komikon... still need to do final revisions for my story.

Post-Summer Komikon 2010 Report...

One of the best Komikons i've had the pleasure of attending! It had lots of komiks, lots of creators, lots of sweaty people & best of all cos-players we're virtually non-existent (saw only a couple i think).

Got so many stuff that my girl had to calm me down. Needed to stay on budget. hehehe...No pics of the event or the stuff i got sadly. But i'll list them down:

- Omeng Estanistlao's Love Story (loved this!) & some of his older works.
- Macoy's School Run - DVD Copy (thoroughly enjoyed this! Macoy gets better & better with each book).
- Micheal David's Kubori Kikiam 7 (absurd & funny), got a sketch too.
- Josel Nicola's El Bimbo Adaptations (haven't read it yet, but the art looks really good)
- Apol Sta.Maria's Alamat ng Panget (again, haven't read it yet).
- Ang Astiging Boy Ipis shirt (rock & roll!).
- Also got my Renaissance book signed some more (yey! Leinil Yu!).

Still haven't sorted out the other stuff. Such an amazing & inspiring day. Makes me wanna draw more.

Oh before calling it a day, my girl & i got some fruit shakes, peanuts & mushroom burgers.

Hopefully next time i'll have some pics. OK back to the strip...

Komikon 2010!

Komikon this Saturday! Komiks! Yey!

Doing a Komik Strip: Part 1 (The Genesis & The Revelation)

Welcome to another rehash of this blog!

What is this about now? Me trying to be "creative" (haha!) & finding a direction for this thing.

So lets start with a cheesy back story (queue violins!)...

I've loved comics since i was 7 years old and because of comics i started drawing. I still read comics but pretty much forgot about drawing. I didn't know anything about the local komiks scene (but i did read my classmates copy of Combatron...hehehe) or our country's komiks / comics heritage (still don't know much about it now, but i'm researching). Then last year i saw a poster for Komikon & decided to check it out. It was a revelation, interacting with local artists who are big name international players like Gerry Alanguilan & Carlo Pagulayan. To big name local guys like Kajo Baldisimo & Budgette Tan. As well as, meeting indie guys like Macoy & Gio Paredes (just to name a few). Seeing all the things these guys were doing with komiks was just mind blowing. Then i started reading the stuff i got, from the photocopied self-published stuff to the card-stock-covered-publisher-backed stuff. My mind was blown some more. I fell in love with the komiks scene & not just that, it inspired me to start drawing again (even painting, which i have never done before).

And now (after procrastinating for soooo loooong...) i'm gonna expand my love for komiks / comics & actually do my own. Hence, the title of this post & the start of this (dumb?) experiment. I'll just start with one strip, then MAYBE do more & MAYBE self-publish it (*rolling eyes*...yeah right). So i'll try to document my progress (or maybe the lack of it) here & post some of the other stuff i do. I am not a learned professional artist (i'm not even good at drawing) & i won't be doing some high concept / high art stuff (i don't even know how to categorize art). I'll just do what i can do with what i have & hopefully it won't be completely bad.

OK. That's enough for part 1.

Part 2 up!