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9-in-1 VPE Kolektib Intelidyens 9 of VPE’s great page masters will come together in this 1 sizzling event. The three-hour meet and greet event will showcase our published books, upcoming titles, and the people behind them. A short talk by the editor and some extraordinary presentations will highlight the program. featuring : carlo vergara david hontiveros manix abrera freely abrigo eros atalia alan navarra budjette tan kajo baldisimo carlos malvar Avid readers, fans and followers, publishing partners, writers aspiring to get published under the VPE name, and curious cats are all invited to grace the event. See you on Saturday! 9-in-1 VPE Kolektib Intelidyens May 24, 2008 3pm Shop 33, Cubao Expo

kick-ass copy If there was ever an award for Best Copy on Packaging, I'd give it to Glaceau's vitaminwater. I was standing in line at Krispy Kreme when I saw these multi-colored bottles. I picked up one, read the first line and was hooked. I stood there for a good five minutes, read all the copy on the all the bottles, and laughed at every punch line. The people behind me didn't seem all that amused. Anyway, here are the ones that I liked. You can read the rest at: http://vitaminwater.com/ ESSENTIAL: orange-orange (c+calcium) ah, orange juice commercials. funny stuff, mom cheerily prepares some huge breakfast while the rest of her family sleeps. sure, this could happen, but every morning? please. maybe if mom were heavily medicated, in which case, we wouldn’t condone operating a stove or any electrical appliance. for those of us who don’t live in an orange juice commercials, there’s still a way to get your morning nutrition. this product has calcium and lots of vitamin c, ...

Building Stories Last week, me and the Eheads (the Executive Heads, not the rock band) went to Pampanga to plan to the future --the FUTURE, Conan?-- yes, the future of the agency. As most "planning sessions" go, you go to some place with a really great view but spend the next three days inside some hotel conference room. So, Maricel made it a point that we get to see the place and try out the food in the area. When we got there, we walked around a nearby wet market, went to the Rivera's farm, then had lunch at Cely's carinderia (where I got to taste camaro /locusts for the first time). We had dessert at Claude Tayag's house or more popularly known as Claude Tayag's Bale Dutung . The story of how the house was built fascinated me. People's usual reaction to the house would be, "How wonderful that you've restored this old house!" And Claude would usually reply, "Oh, it's not an old house. It's a newly built house." As it tur...

Post this on your wall for your own protection We'll be giving away this diabolical TRESE poster during FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, May 3. Buy a copy of TRESE: MURDER ON BALETE DRIVE and get a free poster. It's that simple! It'll definitely be available at Comic Odyssey, Robinsons Galleria . I'll update you guys if we'll make the poster available at other comic book stores. Please check my Twitter page on Saturday morning for updates: http://twitter.com/Budjette (If you already bought a copy, don't worry because we're putting together a plan so you can also get the free TRESE poster. More details about that soon!) One more thing, if you see two suspicious looking individuals lurking around Comic Odyssey, Galleria and Comic Quest, Megamall during FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, that's probably me and Kajo. :)

That clown from Stephen King’s “IT” freaked us out. Me and Brandie borrowed the LaserDisc of that movie way back in the early 90s. It promptly gave us nightmares and inspired our first comic book collaboration: PAYASO. Brandie was a big fan of Dave McKean, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Duncan Fegredo’s art in ENIGMA. He even managed to hunt down the works of McKean’s mentor: Barron Storey. So, when we decided to do that short story for COMICS 101, he was clearly playing tribute to his comic book idols. The next time we collaborated was for our contribution in the short-lived literary anthology CHIMERA. Once again, I wrote the story and he did the art. Of course, I already told you about the time we published our own newspaper and the time we worked on his Great Taste campaign . Now that we’re working for our respective agencies, we don’t get to collaborate much, but that doesn’t stop him from giving me advice on how to make my work better. Maybe the opportunity will eventually come that we’l...

13 days to go book 1 the front and back cover By the end of the month TRESE: MURDER ON BALETE DRIVE should already be in several bookstores. (We'll be giving you a complete list as soon as they are delivered.) This book compiles the first four cases of Trese, has an introduction from Gerry Alanguilan, an afterword from me-- where I talk about the beginnings and influences of TRESE, a bonus section in the back-- with sketches and character designs from Kajo. TRESE: MURDER ON BALETE DRIVE Published by Visual Print Enterprises Written by Budjette Tan, Art by Kajo Baldisimo Format: Black&White, 104 pages Cover price: P140.00 the sneak preview

I finally found a copy of SINDAK! in Filbars. This was scheduled to come out a little after Holy Week, but its great that it was made available this week, since it comes close to the release of TRESE: BOOK 1 (more about that in the next couple of days). So, if you’d like to know more about the origins of Trese, is there or isn’t there a “Trese movie” in the works, do we have anyone in mind for the casting of Trese, who was the mysterious Frenchman who called up Comic Quest, then all the answers can be found in SINDAK! #1 !!! Of course, other reasons to pick up this horror-thriller magazine are the comic book stories by Gerry Alanguilan, Randy Valiente, KC Cordero, Novo Malgapo, Ner Perdina, and the rest of the Sindak! Team. Many thanks to KC Cordero, Athena Fregillana, Paul del Rosario for featuring me and Kajo (and TRESE) in their first issue.

escape into a book One of my favorite campaigns won big time in the recent ADFEST. Click on the images to see larger version. Gold Single Press Lotus - Penguin Books "Train" Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore Silver Single Press Lotus - Penguin Books "Bus stop" Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore Gold Campaign Press Lotus - Penguin Books "Bus-Stop/Train/Airport" Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore See the rest of the ADFEST winners at: Adobo Magazine (Would be nice to do a campaign promoting comic books, yes?)

painting people's house “ … I probably need to explain once again why I don't stay long on company-owned works. It's as simple as this -- if I don't own it, I'm not going to spend my life on it. “Or, if you like: you can only paint someone else's house for so long before you start thinking that it might be nice to own your own house one day. “I'm okay with painting other people's houses for short periods, because I'm good at it and it pays well and on nice days it's fun. But I never ever confuse painting a house for owning that house. And if I spent every waking hour painting other people's houses, I wouldn't be able to build houses of my own. “The more creators who only took on housepainting as a part-time gig, the healthier this medium would be.” – warren ellis Which made me think about the work we do in the agency. Client comes to us and tells us to paint their house. Make it look pretty! Make it red! Make it blue! Make it look bigger ...

see fox run, see fox read April seems to be shaping up to be a busy month for readers and book lovers and comic book collectors. On April 14, FOX BOOKS launches its first batch of titles at Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street . Their second batch of titles will be several comic books / graphic novels, scheduled sometime mid-year. More details at: http://foxbooks.blogspot.com/ See you in the bookstores!

mystery girl As news of the cancellation of two local comic book titles are mentioned in the blogosphere, it's great to receive news that a new company will venture into comic book publishing. The company is called BLUE COW and their comic book is called PRIVATE IRIS. Their first comic book project will definitely get a lot of buzz since it was created by the team behind CAST: Jamie Bautista and Arnold Arre. SYNOPSIS : “Private Iris” is a mystery comic series that challenges kids of all ages to match wits with MacGuffin Plains’ brilliant but secretive super sleuth, Private Iris. When Danton, the most popular boy in school, joins forces with Private Iris, the most intelligent loner in town, you get a crime-solving team that can’t be beat! Iris’ genius level intellect and high-tech gadgets combined with Danton’s winning personality and his amazing athletic skills will show that there’s no case that can’t be cracked and no villain that can’t be caught. So join Private Iris and Danton...

babbling real-time http://twitter.com/Budjette ... where I mostly post links to stuff I find online and tell you really useless stuff (e.g. "I'm stuck in traffic!", "I'm eating!", "I just got a new comic book!", "I'm eating!", "I need to loose weight.", "I'm eating!!!")

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here kitty! kitty! New COFFEEMATE TVC by McCann Erickson Philippines

THE HAUNTING "There is a brand new television commercial of Nestlé All-Purpose Cream of McCann Erickson launched last Sunday that is utterly different from all the Nestlé commercials that have been done by all of the Nestlé advertising agencies in the country. Noy Dyliacco, Nestlé corporate communications director, labeled this as his special challenge to the agency to do a commercial with a relatively small budget that would truly stand above the clutter of TV commercials." -- Nanette A. Franco-Diyco, BusinessWorld Weekend Credits: Client-company, Nestlé Philippines. Pedro Dyliacco, senior vice-president and director of communications; Sandra Puno, vice-president for media relations; Joseph Jonathan Custodio, brand manager for Nestlé Cream. Advertising agency, McCann Erickson. Creative: Raul Castro, chief creative officer, McCann World Group; Noel Bermejo, creative director, McCann World Group; Aris Marquez, associate creative director; Henry Gonzales, copywriter; Gabby Alca...

LOVE NAMIN TALAGA! CHIPPY "Schoolness" PROJECT: SCHOOLNESS “POGI” CLIENT: URC / Jack N Jill AGENCY: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano, DECD: Budjette Tan, CD: Isabel Gamboa Copywriter: Jao Bautista, Isabel Gambao, Art Director: Erwin Triviño Accounts: Maricel Pangililan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Sinta Rosales-Baguio, Evarose Ocampo Director: Henry Frejas, Production House: Filmex Producer: Jho Moya, Starring: Jho Moya

IPA-PARTY NA YAN!!! TOSTILLAS "Gradweyt" TOSTILLAS "Swerte" Client: URC Jack N Jill Agency: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano, DECD: Budjette Tan, ACD: JB “Taps” Tapia Copywriter: Bow Guerrero. Art Director: Ronnie Tres Reyes Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Sinta Rosales-Baguio, Abby Nicolas, Evarose Ocampo. Producer: Jho Moya Director: Luis Tabuena

mini-me Apol twittered about her new stuffed creations, which lead me to her blog entry about her friend Chez who makes dolls , which made me find this doll (see picture above), which made me email it to Wella with the subject heading "The BUDJ doll", which made her reply and send me a revised picture where she used her Powerpoint skills to add eyeglasses to the doll with the big belly, which made me blog about it now.

The Globe IDD campaign (2002) IDD reunion IDD trophy We weren’t supposed to work on this project. I came to the office and found Argem brainstorming for the new IDD campaign. He had this idea for a guy who was calling up his OFW dad, thanking him for the pasalubong he got. In the span of an afternoon we came up with four stories. Argem then worked til 3AM, drawing the storyboards. Back then, our routine was, he’d leave the boards on my desk and I’d just pick them up before going to the meeting. So, I got the meeting and realized that Argem only gave me three storyboards. He didn’t get draw the TROPHY story. I texted him and he replied, apologizing that he was too tired to draw the fourth board. The meeting started. One team presented several boards and I presented my three boards and one script. As luck would have it, they chose the last two stories we presented. TRIVIA: During the first year of Globe’s (G)-moments campaign, we use one guy to do all the VOs. He was the “Voice...

The Globe MMS campaign (2002) PHOTO MSG TRAFFIC CAM We’ve got cameo appearances all over these two TV commercials. In TRAFFIC CAM, I did the voice of the grumbling guy. Telly, the producer, thought I was perfect for the part. In PHOTO MSG, Taps did the voice of the tall guy. And, of course, that was my photo with Donita in the phone screen. That picture was shot during the last shooting day of Donita's second GENTXT commercial. It was around 2AM and the director just yelled, “Pack up!” The cast and crew were lining up to get their picture taken with the MTV VJ. Dadi, my CD, pushed me beside Donita and yelled, “Picture! Picture!” Next thing I knew, I was getting hugged by Donita and the flash going off. Cut-to: months later, me and Argem were working on the storyboard for the PHOTO MSG service. The script called for a “loser guy” who gets to meet a beautiful celeb and his friends wouldn’t believe him. Argem was the one you remembered that photo and placed in the storyboard...