Babbling Point

. I don't know where our country's going, but I know where I'll be tomorrow: at the Neil Gaiman event at Rockwell!!! Anyway, here's an excerpt from a speech that Gaiman gave at the 1997 PRO/con in Oakland: We are creators. When we begin, separately or together, there’s a blank piece of paper. When we are done, we are giving people dreams and magic and journeys into minds and lives that they have never lived. And we must not forget that. I don’t want to sound like an inspirational speaker here. “Be you.” be the best you that you can be.” But this is really important. It’s something that we mostly lose track of when we starts, because when we start in comics, we’re kids, and we have no idea who we are or what our voices, as artists or as writers. Young artists want to be Rob Leifeld, or Bernie Wrightson, or Frank Miller, just as young writers want to be Alan Moore, or Chris Claremont or, well, Frank Miller. You’ve seen their portfolios. You’ve read the scripts. We all swi...

. Below is an article I wrote for Karen's column about my trip to the San Diego Comic-Con and my report on the Neil Gaiman talk. I even got him to autograph my copy of "Sandman: Seasons of Mists". My only regret was that I wasn't able to attend the midnight reading of his story because I fell asleep. At least this time, the Gaiman talk will happen in the afternoon and I'll surely be there. Check out the part where he talks about his projects. Interesting to note how some of the titles have changed and how some books never pushed through. Maybe we can ask him about it this Saturday. See you in The Dreaming. Hanging Out with the Dream King by Budjette Tan (Published in Karen Kunawicz’s ON THE VERGE, Mirror Weekly, September 18, 1995) Over two hundred people, including myself, packed that room in the San Diego Convention Center last July 28. As we filled up the place up, we immediately saw the man we came to see and hear. As expected, he was dressed in black from hea...

. Bronze Boy Brandie's print ads for IMDOIUM can now be viewed in Adverblog: http://www.adverblog.com/archives/001641.htm#more The ads recently won the bronze at Thailand's Adman Awards. Another ad-blog is: http://eschenck.typepad.com/ Before starting his blog, Ernie Schenck used to (and still does) write a column for Communcation Arts. Hmmm... a blog about Pinoy ads.

. The Best Policy Did any of you get to watch that episode of IMBESTIGADOR on GMA? They conducted an experiment to test the honesty of the Filipino. They had a teen-age girl walk around in the different parts of the city and they had her drop her wallet. She sometimes dropped her wallet in front of someone or a group of people. Sometimes she'd just leave the wallet even if no one was looking. Inside the wallet was two hundred pesos and a note that said, in case the wallet was found to please call her number. If I remember correctly, 65 people returned the wallet. 15 people didn't. As pointed out by a UP Psych-teacher, some of the 15 people who didn't return the money were really poor might have felt they needed the money more, some didn't own cellphones and wouldn't have a way to call the owner, and some might have just considered it too much of a bother to return it. Later on, the IMBESTIGADOR team interviewed some of the people who returned the wallet. It was enco...