Babbling Point

Agency work requires to expect that your work will get revised. Expect it to get revised a thousand times and be ready for the possibility that it won't get approved or that it might get approved, but for some reason it won't ever see the light of day. So, it is always a joy to work on a project that gets approval on the first pass and in every single stage of the project, client is just happy with the work and they say, "Ok! Go!" This is one such project. The team had a lot of fun working on this and the song is still stuck in our heads. :) PROJECT: DANCE DANCE PRODUCT: Chiz Curls CLIENT: Jack N Jill / URC AGENCY: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano, DECD: Budjette Tan, CD: Kevin Sabino Copywriter: Bow Guerrero, Art Director: Reinard Santos Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Sinta Rosales-Baguio, Eva Ocampo Producer: Barbie Leyba Music: Angelo Villegas (HIT Productions) Director: Vince del Rosario Production House: Holy Cow

i d o r u Last Saturday, at the Mangaholix event , we were lucky enough to be placed on the same side as Alodia Gosiengfiao ’s booth. (I think Kajo had plans of leaving after our interview on stage, but when he went back to the booth, he decided to stay.) For the uninitiated, Alodia has won numerous cosplay events in the past couple of years. She maintains a website that gets thousand of hits every time she uploads a new set of photos. Most of the time at Mangaholix, the people at the booth were Alodia’s sister Ashley and her DeviantArt/cosplay friends Tricia and Crissey . Some family and friends were also there and they were selling posters and prints of Alodia. (And they were selling faster than copies of TRESE. Hmmm… must re-think marketing plan!) I’ve heard of Alodia before and have been linked to her DeviantArt site since last year, but I never knew she THAT FAMOUS. Alodia was one of the judges of the cosplay, so she didn’t really spend a lot of time at the booth. Every time sh...

MangaOverload Thanks to Emman, Xavier, Ian and the rest of the Mangaholix Crew for inviting us to their event last Saturday. Thank you for letting us hang out at that one corner of your booth and for allowing us to sell TRESE. When Emman invited us and said we were going to their “guest stars”, I assumed there would be other “guests”. (Well, there were musical guests, lots of bands played before the cosplay event-- which was what everyone was waiting for). I just thought there would other comic book creators would also be on stage and we’d all talk about making comic books. As it turned out we were it. Just me and Kajo on stage with the hosts. I looked out into the crowd and thought, “99.99% percent of these people are here for the cosplay and anime and manga. Will they really be interested in our book which isn’t really manga?” Thankfully, the hosts had some questions at hand and that prevented us from having any dead air. Then there were the four very nice people also went up to the...