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where Sharon considers being an action star (kind of) ... where Sharon Cuneta slaps someone on the set...

a tribute Trese and to H.P.Lovecraft :) Art by Bow Guerrero Bow was my artist/partner for THE FLYING PHANTOM. The last time we worked together on a comic book project was for our contribution to Psicom's FANTASYA (edited by Reg Ting) It's great to see Bow draw again. Told him that we should do a Trese story rendered in this style. (And maybe we could even go back make the Flying Phantom take flight again.) see more TRESE artwork at http://www.exhibit13.blogspot.com/

G.I. JOE RESOLUTE Story by Warren Ellis http://gijoeresolute.com/ 1 2 3&4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Thank you Warren Ellis for making feel like I'm in grade school all over again. (And thank you Hasbro for letting Mr. Ellis play with all those nifty toys in your toy box, even if it meant that some of those toys would get broken.) If my memory serves me right, the very first G.I.JOE toy I made my dad buy was Destro. Back then, me and Brandie still collected Star Wars action figures and were still big fans of the Force. I got Destro because I thought he'd make a cool villain to pit against Luke Skywalker. Couple of weeks later, we saw the Snake-eyes and StormShadow actions figures, and since I was also a big ninja freak, I just had to get those toys as well. Soon enough, the Joes were outnumbering the Rebel Alliance in our toy closet. Then there was that one Sunday when we drove all the way to Magallanes, to visit a small video rental store. That's where we borrowed one VHS tape o...

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Hey kids! Kajo’s first art gig for Dark Horse ( THE DEFUSER ) comes out this week and this Saturday (April4) he’ll be at Comic Odyssey, Robinsons Galleria for an autograph signing session (1pm to 3pm). See you there! “My comic will be hitting stores April 1st. I had a hand in the story and have seen all the art for the book. Very great style. I love the artist; Kajo Baldisimo.” – The Defuser Yup, that quote came from the The Defuser himself, which he posted at http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showuser=2953422 The full-color preview pages of THE DEFUSER comic book came from http://www.comixology.com/previews/FEB090051/ Art from : http://kajobaldisimo.blogspot.com/ More artwork can be viewed at: http://www.glasshousegraphics.com/creators/pencilers/kajobaldisimo/index.htm

We apologize for the extreme delay in the release of TRESE: BOOK 3. I just wanted to take this time to explain why it’ll take awhile for the book to come out. I’ve been tracking the reader response for the past year and I noticed we’re not getting a lot of teens and tweens reading TRESE. I think it’s great that we’re getting college students discussing it in class and that we’re getting feedback from the young adult market. (I’ve even received one or two text messages from friends that even their parents have started reading TRESE.) Analyzing the sales and box office receipts of books/movies like TWILIGHT and HARRY POTTER, I’ve come to decision to start showing Alexandra Trese during her teen years. Following the formula of those successful properties, I’ll be introducing new characters that may or may not become the love interest of Alexandra. In Book 3, you’ll get to meet Alobo B’mam, the dark and handsome Prince of Aswang and Jester Guerrero, a rookie cop who happens to be Capt. Gue...

When I was working on that photo meme last week, I found this pic in my Flickr page. I wrote and drew these comic books when I was in grade school. (Because it would be very embarrassing if I just wrote and drew these last week.) JBB were the first letters of my name, my brother's and my uncle's. I’d use whatever paper I'd find lying around and draw with colored pens and stapled the pages together. JBB COMICS had three titles back then: COSMIC MAN, who rode the cosmos in his cosmic ship and fought evil with his cosmic gun and cosmic net and cosmic utility belt. LIGHTNING HAWK, who got his powers after he was bitten by a hawk that was struck by lightning. I had a team book called THE COMPUTER CREEPS. They ordinary computer parts that suddenly came alive when they were struck by lightning.(Yes, I wasn't very original back then.) The team was composed of The Monitor, The Keyboard, The Hard Drive, The MicroCHiPs (who rode on little motorbikes), and The Transformer (because ...

Failure. The mere thought can paralyze even the most heroic thinkers and keep great ideas off the drawing board. But is failing really that bad? We get an inside look at the mishaps of Honda racers, designers and engineers to learn how they draw upon failure to motivate them to succeed. From poor color choices to blown race engines, these risk-taking individuals provide an honest look at what most people fear most. Watch the film and discover the upside of failure. After I saw that documentary, I remembered this story which I blogged about three years ago. CHAMPIONS (june 19, 2006) ...we found out today that we lost the Tuseran pitch. That was the other project we were working on for the past two weeks. We really felt that we had a really great campaign and that client would like it. Well, they didn't. This is the second time we're lost a Unilab account in a pitch. Last year, we lost Enervon. So, on the cab ride back to the office I remembered something my friend Rog once to...

I found this photo meme at http://otherjoseph.livejournal.com/54402.html#cutid1 It looked like a fun thing to do. Took me a week, going through the files in my computer and the ones on my site, to find the right pictures. I wonder how I would've answered this five years ago, ten years ago or how I would've answer it back during my college days. Maybe I'll dig up all those photo albums at home and open the boxes hidden in the closest and see which pictures would fit these descriptions. 1. a picture of you in your room 2. picture of with someone you don't really like (well, there are times when I don't like being with me) 4. a picture of you on your birthday, or your favorite holiday 5. the youngest picture you can find of yourself in digital form. (ok... ok... I cheated. This is a digital photo of an old photo. Below is the oldest digital pic I've got on file... taken 2002) 6. a picture of you in one of your favorite outfits. (i love this ja...

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Sit back. Relax. Grab a beer. The show's about to begin. Jack-in to the cybernet with ... Client: Globe Broadband Product: Globe Tattoo Instant Prepaid Internet Agency: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano, CD: JB Taps Tapia Copy: Jay Pangilinan, Art: Kevin Sabino, Mark Pahate Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Jello Goloy, Eva Ocampo Producer: Chona Bustamante (Just Add Water) Prod House: Provil Director: Stephen Ngo

Seems like the visual of "talent holding giant phone" has been around even before I was born. There's the cover the 1972 Yellow Pages.

Two links I found via http://www.jonathancarroll.com/blog1/archiveMain.html (So, should I call this a reTweet or a reBlog?) From a recent profile of the novelist Ian McEwan in THE NEW YORKER: Three years ago, McEwan culled the fiction library of his London town house, in Fitzroy Square. He and his younger son, Greg, handed out thirty novels in a nearby park. In an essay for the Guardian, McEwan reported that "every young woman we approached . . . was eager and grateful to take a book, whereas the men could not be persuaded. Nah, nah. Not for me. Thanks, mate, but no. The researcher's conclusion: When women stop reading, the novel will be dead." http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/02/23/090223fa_fact_zalewski?currentPage=all http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/sep/20/fiction.features11 http://www.dearoldlove.com/ is short notes to people we've loved (or at least liked). Requited or unrequited. For example: Reintroduction Facebook keeps putting you in the list of ...

3000 copies. It’s not exactly enough to be considered a national best-seller, but it’s a big deal to me (and Kajo) since it’s the first time we’ve ever done anything that sold more than 500 copies. It was such a big surprise when Nida, our publisher, told me that TRESE Book 1 had already sold 3,000 and is now on its second printing. (And Book 2 has already sold 1,000 copies.) Thanks to all the comic book store owners, book store managers, and most especially to all readers. Me and Kajo are still working on Book 3. It’s a bit delayed, we know, but we just want to make sure you have as much fun (and feel as much fear) when you read Case #9 to 13. We hope it’ll be worth the wait. For the ones who are still trying to hunt down for their own copy of TRESE, it is now available in the following stores: Best Sellers Comic Odyssey Comic Quest Fully Booked National Bookstore Pandayan Bookstore Powerbooks If your local branch or favorite bookstore/comic book shop doesn't have copies, just g...

Originally posted by Marvel editor C.B. Cebulski at: http://twitter.com/CBCebulski Every year, [the] same "writer" tells me how he's better than Bendis, and same "artist" can't understand how Bachalo gets work over him. No, seriously, I heard "I deserve..." and "I'm just as good as..." maybe 5 or 6 times at NYCC from writers & artists looking for work. This has been going on for four years now, con after con, and neither has broken into the top five publishers in that time. I wonder why? And just to clarify, while I meet and talk to writers, I can't read pitches & proposals or discuss stories. My job is to find artists only. Oh, I'm not venting, just trying to head off any potential confusion. Don't want people pitching me when they shouldn't be. Hope that helps. Ultimately, it's the editors who hire the writers & artists. They choose the talent on their books. Disturbing but eye-opening fact: No writer...

Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis talks about … MAKING YOUR LAST COMIC BOOK: I’m always amazed by the people who work so hard to get here [a job in Marvel], or so lucky to get there. It takes an insane amount of work to get there and when they get there and they start bucking around, they start diva-ing it up and get high and mighty and totally forget … [you have to remember] what job you have in comics, someone else had that job before you. Settle down! And work! Now is the time to do the work of your life. Now is the time to express yourself like no one else has ever done. You should [write or draw this comic book] like it’s your last, like you’re going to be fired after this. And I do this. Remember … someone else had this job and someone else will have it after you. It’s up to you how long you can keep it. Big name people –BIG NAME PEOPLE—cannot get work because they act the fool. PROMOTING YOUR WORK: Just getting the book out … just birthing it to the world… is not enough. T...

Printed on the back of a pirated DVD: So, is this the very special director's cut that we never got to see? This blurb deserves an award! Best copy? Funniest synopsis? I have to admit, Dr. Jackstraw sound like an interesting name for a villain. (But who the hell is Tougon?) Thanks to Chan for the picture.

Melvin posted : "[This is] my nephew, Prince. He insisted on having his photo taken wearing one of the Kambal's masks. His fave is Case 7: Embrace of the Unwanted and he's still forcing me to shoot another short horror film cause he wasn't able to play the aswang part on the first one we made last year." See more of Melvin Arciaga's work at: http://vinarci.deviantart.com/