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READERS, creatives, students, professionals, the curious and the intrigued can support over 200 Filipino comics creators at the Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF) on July 5 and 6, 2025 ...
Of her komiks, Tadiar has felt “not necessarily a pushback more than a holding back—at first I had a sense that I didn’t exactly belong, or that my story was too niche to sell.
Hulyen is a komiks truth-teller who has inspired an entire new generation of women comic creators and beyond. She has wonderful anecdotes about her work that prove this.
The first issue of what turned out to be the most popular reading material of the masses, Pilipino Komiks, came out on June 14, 1947. On its cover are two characters of Tony Velasquez’s Nanong ...
Before I turned to the heavyweights (best-selling novels, etc.), I had been nourished since grade school on Classics Illustrated (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Count of Monte Cristo, Mutiny on ...
The “Komiks King” of the Philippines, film director and producer Carlo J. Caparas, says in Filipino: “Financial stability is the soul of a progressive nation.
They thought of using the Komiks format because of the medium’s appeal across generations. Celine Samson, VERA Files’ online verification head said, “The comic book we are launching today ...
Komiket, a non-profit organization that organizes comic art markets and produces Filipino “komiks,” posted on their official Facebook page against the use of AI generators, particularly AI art ...
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, Philippines — Renowned comic book artist and writer Gerry Alanguilan, who helped revitalize the Filipino comic book as one of the country’s leading art forms in its popular ...