Babbling Point

The Letter That Was Never Sent November 1994 Dear ___________ Greetings! In view of the growing number of FILIPINO comic book creators, we find it encouraging and hopeful that this might be the start of a new era in the Filipino comic book industry. But most of the comic book buyers are not aware of our creations due to the lack of exposure / advertisements and we are fighting for shelf space among hundreds of foreign comic books. Furthermore, we end up competing among ourselves instead of helping each other, which is only detrimental to the growth of the industry. In order to address this situation, we propose the gathering of all our titles under a UNIFYING BANNER under this banner the creators would retain autonomy over all direction and copyright of their creations; free ad space will be provided to ALL our comic books to promote the others’ creations; the name of your printer / publisher will still be retained if you want. We invite you to a meeting to discuss this

happy halloween Some online treats for all who dare to pass-by this dark way: TRESE: The Outpost on Kalayaan Street is now online. The idea for this issue came from staring out the window too much. One of our brainstorm rooms faces that part of Makati where the Manila South Cemetery is located. That day, they had just painted some of the tombstones with bright, white paint, so you could see it peeking through the treetops. My uncle used to be the parish priest of the nearby church and he told me about the families that lived in the cemetery. Which just made me wonder what life was like in that place. Last Holy Week, I took a walk around the Manila South Cemetery and took referrence photos for Kajo. Here are some of them: By the way, more evidence have been collected for Exhibit 13 . Scene of the Crime Officers Tobie Abad, Joel Chua, Adam David, Reno Maniquis, Elbert Or, Isha Pimentel, Argem Vinuya, and Leinil Francis Yu have some disturbing (and cute) illustrations to present to you.