Saturday, November 12, 2005
October 22,2005, 9:45 am, Cubao, I met up with my cousin/partner in crime, CJ or more popularly known as Dribs (a.k.a Momopi), well he goes by a lot of names but I prefer calling him dribs ‘coz that’s what I’m used to already. He was with his girlfriend, Rhen and as usual I’m by my lonesome, hehe, don’t even bother asking why. Anyways, lets cut to the chase, that day was quite significant or more properly monumental ‘coz that was the day we would go to the Komikon 2005 at UP Bahay Ng Alumni.
We didn’t know what to expect in a comic convection so we only bought ourselves and some cash so that we could buy some comics that might interest us. A big mistake I would say ‘coz we never know what awaits us at the con’. We forgot to bring our comics to have them signed and some extra sketch papers to get our idol’s autographs or even some simple sketches (dribs was luckier though ‘coz he got to have one sketch)*sigh*…
The Komikon was like geek haven (this post really brings out the fanboy in me) ‘coz there were a lot of artists, writers and of course comics in the event. More importantly, I was able to see some of my comic book heroes in the event namely; Mr. Gerry Alanguilan and Mr. Berlin Manalaysay.
Mr. Alanguilan is the guy behind the comic book novel, WASTED. For those who still haven’t read this book yet, you should try it, it’s a good read. Wasted has shown me that comics are not all about superhero stuff. That comic books that deal with human emotions are good read as well. You don’t need super-heroes nor mutants to have a good comic book. Telling about human emotions such as love would is a nice basis of making a good comic book. Basically, this book has inspired me a lot to do a comic book that is not superhero based.
As for Mr. Manalaysay, I could say that he was one of my heroes as I was growing up. Do you still remember that ever famous comic book when we were still young (by the way, I’m just 21), Funny Komiks? Mr. Manalaysay was guy behind the Filipino version of Rockman, Combatron. Cool isn’t it? He’s already like a cultural icon ‘coz a lot of kids from my generation knows him. It like every kid during our time was able to read an issue or two of Funny Komiks. Man, those were the days…Luckily, Dribs was able to get a sketch of Death Metal drawn by Mr. Manalaysay himself before he left the event (I envy that guy ‘coz I’d love to have my own sketch as well, darn! Well, anyways there’s still next year I hope…).
I would have to say that I’m priviledge to have seen my comic book heroes ‘coz they were like the people who inspired me to continue and develop my comic book skills. Thank you sirs!
The komikon also featured a lot of nice indie pinoy comic books out there. In fact it also inspired mo finally put up a comic book of my own (tentatively titled as “Boys at the Back”). Hopefully, before the next komikon I’d have it finished and may be display it along the other indie comic books there. Got a lot of things in mind its just that I haven’t got the time to do it.
We didn’t know what to expect in a comic convection so we only bought ourselves and some cash so that we could buy some comics that might interest us. A big mistake I would say ‘coz we never know what awaits us at the con’. We forgot to bring our comics to have them signed and some extra sketch papers to get our idol’s autographs or even some simple sketches (dribs was luckier though ‘coz he got to have one sketch)*sigh*…
The Komikon was like geek haven (this post really brings out the fanboy in me) ‘coz there were a lot of artists, writers and of course comics in the event. More importantly, I was able to see some of my comic book heroes in the event namely; Mr. Gerry Alanguilan and Mr. Berlin Manalaysay.
Mr. Alanguilan is the guy behind the comic book novel, WASTED. For those who still haven’t read this book yet, you should try it, it’s a good read. Wasted has shown me that comics are not all about superhero stuff. That comic books that deal with human emotions are good read as well. You don’t need super-heroes nor mutants to have a good comic book. Telling about human emotions such as love would is a nice basis of making a good comic book. Basically, this book has inspired me a lot to do a comic book that is not superhero based.
As for Mr. Manalaysay, I could say that he was one of my heroes as I was growing up. Do you still remember that ever famous comic book when we were still young (by the way, I’m just 21), Funny Komiks? Mr. Manalaysay was guy behind the Filipino version of Rockman, Combatron. Cool isn’t it? He’s already like a cultural icon ‘coz a lot of kids from my generation knows him. It like every kid during our time was able to read an issue or two of Funny Komiks. Man, those were the days…Luckily, Dribs was able to get a sketch of Death Metal drawn by Mr. Manalaysay himself before he left the event (I envy that guy ‘coz I’d love to have my own sketch as well, darn! Well, anyways there’s still next year I hope…).
I would have to say that I’m priviledge to have seen my comic book heroes ‘coz they were like the people who inspired me to continue and develop my comic book skills. Thank you sirs!
The komikon also featured a lot of nice indie pinoy comic books out there. In fact it also inspired mo finally put up a comic book of my own (tentatively titled as “Boys at the Back”). Hopefully, before the next komikon I’d have it finished and may be display it along the other indie comic books there. Got a lot of things in mind its just that I haven’t got the time to do it.
(a picture of me and my idol,Mr. Gerry Alanguilan)
To the people behind the first komikon, hat’s off to to you guys! Nice job! We’d be back next year!
I’d love to tell you a lot more of what happened at the ‘con its just that I don’t have enough time to tell it to all of you guys. If you could notice as well this is a rushed post, my thoughts are a bit unorganized, my apologies, I also haven’t written somethin’ in a while and my writing skills are startin’ to get rusty.
Hehe. That’s all for now, ‘til my next post. See yah.
I sent an S.O.S tonight