13,000 THANK YOU’s Friday afternoon, me, Kajo, and Ian were walking to the Copylandia to get our books reproduced. Kajo asked me how many copies of TRESE did I make. I said I had 30 copies of #1 to #4 and 40 copies of #5 and #6. “Dude, I think you need to make more,” he said. I said we had enough. I thought, since we sold only 40 copies in the last Komikon, I had enough. Cut-to: Saturday, day of the Komikon, 3:13pm I had no more copies of TRESE. It was a sad / happy situation to be in. I had to apologize to the people who wanted to buy the whole set. Some people opted to buy THE LAST DATU / THE DATU’S DAUGHTER, which was another book made by me and Kajo. (Hope you also liked that as much as you liked TRESE.) It was also interesting to meet people who had read the TRESE stories online, but still wanted to have a copy. Me and Kajo have discussed the problems of uploading complete issues online; that people might just settle for that and not buy the printed versions when we do release the...
The rants and raves of a copy/comic book/writer in Manila.