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The Envelope is the Message Above is the print ad promoting the magazine MANILA ENVELOPE, now available at Fully Booked . The ad was made by BBDO Guerrero-Ortega and written by Jessica Zafra . Click here to see the other MANILA ENVELOPE ads On a related note, singer-song writer David Byrne recently blogged about his trip to Manila: I meet up with a group of people whom I’d previously contacted at film director Antonio “Butch” Perez’s apartment, which is conveniently around the corner from the hotel. Marcos’ former cameraman Edgar Navarro and his very pregnant wife sit beside me and we are joined by editor Jessica Zafra (her magazines Flip and Manila Envelope, both in English, are wonderful,) poet and columnist Krip Yuson, photographer Neal Oshima, restauranteuse Susan Roxas, performance artist Carlos Celdran, adman David Guerrero, …and eventually even more filmmakers and writers. Click here to read the his complete entry.
We Have Such Sites to Show You While we rush to bring you TRESE #3 (and hopefully, it'll be typo-free), let me distract you with some new sites featuring online comic books, babes in bikinis, and reviews about "Trese". http://aha-hule.blogspot.com/ Aha Hule Komiks! which first came out in Manila Bulletin is now online. http://toweringsilver.blogspot.com/ Jon Zamar's "Digmaang Salinlahi" is now also online. Updated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Written by Jon Zamar. Art by a man named Keso. Additional drawings by Jon Zamar Adam David has splattered his words and art all over the net lately. First up is, PAOLO MATALO , a comix based on mykel andrada's short story. Second is franz arcellana's the yellow shawl is the comix adaptation of arcellana's story. (written by emil flores, art by adam) And finally, you can read Adam's poems about half-naked women at http://wasaaak.blogspot.com/ , where you can also read his review of Trese #1 and ...