Babbling Point

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...

This Saturday, you will find us lurking around: Mangaholix Manga Mania '08 May 31, 2008, Saturday SMX Convention Center Seashell Drive, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City, Philippines I think they have plans of dragging us up on stage to talk about Trese and the Kambal. TRESE: MURDER ON BALETE DRIVE will also be available at the Mangaholix table. (We might come in costume. I will be the Fat Kambal and Kajo will be the Thin Kambal.) Hope to see you there!