TRESE goes UP!

FEB 12(FRI) I will be at U.P. DILIMAN along with Manix Abrera to talk about comic book writing (so says this poster below)



And on FEB 13(SAT) I will be at U.P.L.B. along with the other guys from Alamat. (Kajo will not be able to join us on this day, since he will be far, far away.)

More details at: http://komikstrip.jonasdiego.com/

work in progress: AUGUST

August stood in front of the speakers as the DJ started to play that song -- the song they danced to that night in Boracay, the song that they asked the DJ to keep on playing because they loved it so much and the DJ didn't mind because they were the only customers in the bar that rainy, summer night.

As the song reached its peak, August stood still and let every pore of his body absorb the music. For a split-second he had hoped that the sonic blast would be powerful enough to hurl him back to the beaches of Boracay; propel him through time to that very night when everything was all right.

The rising beat, gave way to the female vocals that promised him an endless summer.

And August just kept on dancing.

Happy Birthday Wella!!!

...then without rhyme or reason
The two birds did rise up to fly
And where the two birds were flying
I swear I saw you and i
I swear I saw you and i

I walked out this morning
It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes
For the first time I saw the work of heaven
In the line where the hills had been married to the sky



And all around me
Every blade of singing grass
Was calling out your name
And that our love would always last




And inside every turning leaf
Is the pattern of an older tree
The shape of our future
The shape of all our history

I was brought to my senses
I was blind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me




lyrics by Sting

Neozep SAD FACE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OM3DF1Az-Q

Client : Unilab / Neozep
Agency: Harrison Communications
ECD: Alex Arellano
Creatives: Bow Guerrero, Ronnie Tres Reyes, Budjette Tan
Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Jello Tan-Goloy, Ethel Dino

Preztel Pirates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFUI4iTyNfs

Client : Jack N Jill, URC
Agency : Harrison Communications
Creatives: Bow Guerrero, Ronnie Tres Reyes, Budjette Tan
Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Jello Tan-Goloy, Ethel Dino
Producer: Datu Gallaga
Music/song: Digitrax
Animation: Holy Cow
Director: Vince del Rosario

50 DANGEROUS THINGS (you should let your children do)

http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Dangerous-Things-Should-Children/dp/0984296107


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-VacaaN75o



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHViFc0ekw

(Thanks to Mark for the link)

Dolphin Rescue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPoINPWLXm0

Client: Globe
Product: Globe Tattoo Broadband
Agency: Harrison Communications
ECD: Alex Arellano, CD: JB Tapia, Art Director: Reinard Santos
Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzalez, Jello Tan-Goloy, AR Riparip III
Strat: Viboy Palilio
Producer: Jho Moya
Director: Adrian Calumpang
ProdHouse: Provill
PostHouse: Roadrunner

Cream-O-holics Test #2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ye54tvRSx0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5unOu12MXg

Client : URC / Jack n Jill
Agency : Harrison Communications
Creatives : JB "Taps" Tapia, Reinard Santos, Budjette Tan
Accounts : Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Jello Tan-Goloy, Ethel Dino
Director: Henry Frejas
Producer: JhoMoya

Trese 5000

Thanks to everyone that made 2009 such a great year for TRESE. The latest unofficial count is we’ve already sold over 5,000 copies of Books 1 and 2. We hope that Book 3 will sell as much.

Thanks to everyone who got copies --who got copies and gave them away as gifts (we’d get the occasional email from people abroad about how they got copies of Trese from their relatives over here).

Thanks to everyone who reviewed it on their blogs, Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Friendster, and Multiply. It’s just amazing how these reviews range from the simple thank you's to lengthly, complex analysis that reads like a thesis paper. Thank you very taking the time to say all those wonderful things about Trese.

By the way, there is now a Trese Facebook page which you can now join:
http://tinyurl.com/tresefacebook

This January, me and Kajo start working on the next Trese case. We hope to finish a new book just in time for the Komikon in October/November.

And just so that you get your Trese-fix a bit earlier, we also hope to release preview books during the comic-cons that will be happening during the first half of the year.

And don’t’ forget to check out UNDERPASS graphic anthology (available wherever you also find Trese). The last story in the book, “The Clinic” was made by me and Kajo.

THE CASE OF THE FAULTY BINDING


We’ve been receiving feedback from readers that the copies of TRESE that they bought have faulty binding; that the pages fall off from the spine soon after they read it. This is the first time we’ve started to get such reports. We apologize that this has happened.

Here are two ways you can have your copies replaced:

1
Return the book to the bookstore where you bought it and have it exchanged for a new one. It would be best that you bring your receipt and that you get it exchanged within a week of purchase.

2
Go to the Visprint office and exchange your copy with a new one. Please bring your receipt as well. Email Visprint at book_inquiry @ visprint .net for more details.

(Obviously, if you’ve had that copy for several months already and the pages have fallen off because it has been passed around to everyone in your household, you school or office, then we’d have to decline in giving you a new copy.)

Thank you very much!