tok en tex

The original dialogue in this strip is in my native tongue, hiligaynon so i made a copy and tagalogized it using MSpaint.  This one’s for my no.2 fan, duduy 

there’s gotta be more!

Every third week of October, our town celebrates the Masskara Festival, a week full of merry-making activities wherein the locals wear happy masks, don colorful costumes and dance on the streets. It is a well-attended celebration despite the bad weather that usually accompanies it.

Today though, we missed the usual rains. For a change, the weather was pleasantly warm and clear, and there was nobody parading around looking like drowned, grinning rats. I feel it was our best festival yet. . But apparently, not everyone felt the same way.

“Yes,” she said impatiently, looking up the clear, blue skies “but when’s the rain coming?”

komikera

I‘m a big fan of  witty comics and cartoons. My first treasured reading material was Funny Komiks  not Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes or Grimm’s FairyTales (i’ve memorized my first nursery rhyme and learned about Cinderella in College, while i was volunteering at a daycare center) I learned to read through Niknok and Planet op da Eyps. My greatest hero then was Mahimud Ali, the carabao version of the great boxer, Ali.

   Matsutsu,Mahimud Ali and Niknok were but a few of my fave comic characters

Then during my teen years, i got hooked with the Super Friends of the DC universe, the Fantastic Four and all those beautifully drawn comic superheroes.

       My highschool berks have superpowers!

 Recently, i’ve been following Polgas of Pugad Baboy and Peanuts in the dailies. These quick, witty shorties somehow makes my day complete. Cartoonists like the late Charles Schulz, brothers Pol and Lan Medina, and my brother Lex (he used to make tons of comics -his very own- when he was only 10 years old) are but a few of those i admire in the field of cartooning.

  So what kung mababaw kaligayahan ko? hehehehe

Anyway, I tried my hand at cartooning once, since i was really into it. Here are my first few attempts at about… twelve years ago. I still use them as demo materials for my summer art workshops

  Kurdapya da Sosyalera, Pidel Vamos, & Elvis da Karaoke King are a few of my first cartoons

 I will be posting some of my own comic strips after this, but don’t hold your breath. They’re nothing short of corny.

and speaking of comics… i have this friend who has this H-U-G-E collection of anything comic (and if you ask me, i think he’s one too Visit my friend  Gnel in his comiclab to see what i mean.

in the spotlight

I found this drawing gathering dust in my baul after cleaning up (a time-consuming job considering the amount of basura i hoard in my small bodega..er.. bedroom) and i thought i’d play around with it using the spotlight effect in Ulead Photo Express, hacked edition. After experimenting with white, yellow, and red spotlights, I’ve come up with a few interesting results. i can’t make up my  mind which one i like most, so i posted all 3. Tell me what you think…

 By the way, here is the original drawing… methinks the nose is worse than penny’s drawing. i so hate drawing noses! 

corrupted memories

A careless technician made my PC crash the other day, and now, I can no longer access the hard  disk. . I’ve had this computer for 8 years and i have stored all my important data in there. It contained over a hundred gig of priceless junk, a compilation of video and music collections, and a huge database of documents and images i’ve hoarded for most of 8 years.

Needless to say, I am terribly unhappy and frustrated. I have done everything to be able to recover/repair/reformat the disk and already sought the help of the best technicians i know, all to no avail.

8 years of my life was in that disk. How ironic that it only took but 8 secs to lose it. 8 years of a colorful, eventful online life and i have no single byte of data to show for it..

Now I am staring at my hard disk sitting at the top of my computer table. It looks to me like a small, square, steel coffin…