Taxi Driver

Bihirang bihira talaga ako makasakay ng taxi na ang driver ay matino. Up to now ay mabibilang ko pa lang sa isang kamay ko ang matitinong driver na nasakyan ko na. Karamihan ay mga mukhang pera at balasubas ang mga ito.

Noong nakaraaang linggo lang ay kasama ko ang pamilya ko na namalengke kami sa may Robinsons Supermarket sa tapat lang ng SM Fairview. At the same time ay bumili rin kami ng bagong computer chair. Dahil ang luma naming computer chair ay wasak wasak at lasug lasug na. Maliban sa aking asawa, ay kasama ko pa ang tatlo kong chikiting. Sa madaling salita ay marami kaming dala at mahihirapan kaming isakay sa jeep ang mga ito. Dahil dito ay nag pasya kami na mag taxi na lang. Habang nakatayo ay kitang kita ko na namimili talaga ng pasahero ang mga taxi driver (paalala lang po sa mga taxi driver na nakakabasa nito, ang pamimili o pagtangi man sa mga pasahero ay bawal po ayon sa batas). Pagkatapos tangihan nung mamang taxi driver yung nasa harapan namin ay sa amin huminto. Nang nalaman nya na malapit lang ang bahay namin ay agad itong pumayag. Nang pag dating sa aming bahay nakita ko na P45 lang ang nasa metro. Tatlong P20 (bale P60) ang pera ko at wala na akong barya. Tinanong ko ang asawa ko at sabi nyang wala rin syang barya. Kaya binigay ko na lang ang tatlong P20. Sabay bulsa kaagad ng damuhong taxi driver sabay tingin sa malayo at dead ma na sa akin. Tinanong ko kung wala na bang sukli? Sabi nya "hapi new year ho" sabay dilat ng mata sa akin. Aba? ang damuhong ito, parang sya pa ang galit nang humingi ako ng sukli ah. Happy new year daw? Sa isip-isip ko eh halos isang linggo nang tapos ang new year ah. Pinabayaan ko na lang at bumaba na lang ako.

Pina ubaya ko na lang sa DIOS ang bagay na ito. Inisip ko na lang na sana ay sa asawa at mga anak nya gamitin ang mga kinita nyang pera at hindi nya gagamitin sa alak,sigarilyo,beer house at kung ano anong layaw. Okay lang sa akin yan dahil alam ko namang mahirap ang buhay dito sa Pilipinas. Pero paano kaya yung mga bisita nating dayuhan? Ang mga taxi driver kasi ang mga unang sumasalubong sa kanila mula sa airport(maliban na lang kung meron silang sundong sasakyan). Baka maging masama ang tingin ng mga turista sa mga Pilipino. Meron kasing kasabihan na "First impression last".

Hay naku, ang mabuti pa ay panoodin nyo na lang ang video na ito para lalo nyo akong maintindihan.

Powerbooks Signing official poster

Here is the official poster for the Sulyap Powerbooks signing event. I hope to see you all there.

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Sulyap Book Signing at POWERBOOKS

Is this a good way to start the year or what :D

I'm so excited with this one because we will be signing on one of the major bookstore here in the Philippines. I am still a little bit overwhelm of the idea of us signing on Powerbooks. I only hope that many people would come to the event. But even so, I am sure that I will have a good time since I will be with the coolest people in the comics.

So please mark the dates.
January 22,2011 (Saturday) 4PM -> Powerbooks Greenbelt 3 Makati
January 29,2011 (Saturday) 4PM -> Powerbooks Mall of Asia


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KOMIKON's SULYAP Book signing at POWERBOOKS!

Meet and greet the creators from SULYAP: A COLLECTION OF CHOICE INDEPENDENT WORKS at POWERBOOKS Greenbelt 3 on January 22 and at POWER BOOKS Mall of Asia on January 29 4pm onwards!

FEATURING THE WORKS OF

GIO PAREDES
RH QUILANTANG
MEL CASIPIT
IAN OLYMPIA
ROMMEL J. ESTANISLAO
TEPAI PASCUAL
JOSEL NICOLAS
MACOY

Cover by Melvin "taga-ilog" Calingo
Compiled by Jon Zamar

this is not the official poster.

Almost done

I'm almost done with this project. Only a few more characters to add.

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New day, new year

Happy new year to everybody. I hope everyone are okay and no accidents happened during the new years eve. I guess this would be my very first blog post for this year 2011. I am very much optimistic this year. I hope that it would be a very productive year for me.

Hindi ako makapaniwala na January 3 na kaagad at nandito na ako sa office namin. Parang kidlat talaga ang pag daan ng mga araw. Napapa isip tuloy ako sa mga pending pages ko. :-( Hopefully, I could finish the latest issue of my comics as soon as possible. I will just keep you posted here.

Kaya Mo by Tuttu, Kean and Ney

Filipino animators

Please support our very own Filipino animators by watching this movie. I have not seen the movie yet, but I have heard so many very good comments about it.

Now If only ABS-CBN could make a Bayan Knights or Kalayaan 3D animation like this, I would smile for a whole week. :-)

Kalayaan 11 preview

I have been so busy this past few weeks, and I will be much more busy on this coming year. It is because our company will start to migrate into a web-based data entry for all of our branches. This means that I would be studying more and more about web-based programming language such as HTML,CSS,PHP and MySQL.

And because of that, I have decided to release Kalayaan #11 on February (as seen on the image below). I have already finished 10 pages and still have to finish 10 more. I just had a quick chat with sputnik telling me that many people are already asking for this issue. That is why I am posting this preview pages. And our chat had also motivated me to work harder on this issue since I do not want to disappoint those people that had asked by making them wait for a long time.

The final cover of Kalayaan #11. Many thanks to Omi Remalante,Jr. for coloring this.
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Page 4 - shows the new toy of Cyfer.
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Page 8 - pencilled and inked by Erwin Ropa. Another one page sub-plot of the series.
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This beautiful back cover is pencilled by Jomar Bulda, inked by Analiza Chris Agot and colors by Oliver Morit.

Chopsticks fan art

During the PICCA event, a few months ago. I met Stanley Chi of Front Act. He is a tv personality, comedian and a cartoonist. He had asked me to create a Chopsticks fan art for him. Chopsticks is his very own comicstrip that he published. I hope he likes this quick sketch that I did for him.

Complementary copy

I finally got my complementary copy of Kalayaan #3 from Forex Cargo Inc. (my publisher abroad). And as expected, the print quality is very much satisfactory.

Forex have just rearranged the pages for their ads, which is okay with me.

I also got the newest issue of 'WOW Pinas' where Komikon 2010 has a two page, thanks to KC Cordero. I bought two copies of these. One for my self, and one for my parents. And they were very happy to see my face there. :-)

Best Sellers in Sputnik

Sputnik comic shop just posted their top best sellers from January to June of this year on their facebook account. And I am very proud that my Kalayaan is #1 in March of 2010 and #4 in May 2010. You can check the details HERE.

SULYAP now in Powerbooks

The SULYAP Anthology is now available at Powerbooks Mall of Asia, Glorietta, Greenbelt and Trinoma. Get your copy now.

Which cover should I use?

KALAYAAN #11 Color Cover by Omi Remalante, Jr.

Which color cover do you like?
The one on the left? or the one on the right?

I had a conversation with my colorist and good friend Omi Remalante Jr. He wanted the one on the left but I wanted the one on the right. He made a very good point that people might think that the girl is a giant if I choose the one on the right since they have the same color tones. And he said the one on the left is much better because the colors made the girl looked more like a background and it gives emphasis of the foreground which is Kalayaan. But with even that said, I still kinda like the one on the right. But if more people like the one on the left then I would have no choice but to use that one.

So I decided to post both version here one my blog and have a little survey on which one the people likes better. I also posted this on facebook and the current score is on my favor. :D

Kalayaan 3 on U.S.

Kalayaan #3 is now printed and now being distributed in all branches of Forex Cargo Inc. in the many states of America. I still have not received my complementary copies yet, there have been a little problem with the shipping but I'm very much confident that it will reach our house. I'm now very eager to get them. :-)

http://www.talktilaok.com/ or Dyarzine (dyaryo-magazine) of Forex Cargo Inc. (my publisher on the U.S.) just uploaded Kalayaan #3 into their site for an online reading. Just scroll down and you will see the picture and click on it.

Or you can just CLICK IT HERE to read it right away. :-)