The paper published this strip this past Tuesday without me knowing it. Sooo... I'm guessing now it won't be stuck on a Sunday but rather when a slot opens. The editor, Mr. Roni Santiago, already gave me notice that I should be submitting more. MORE! Yeeeee!

My first colored comic strip printed in the Manila Bulletin today! Quite a historic day, really, since this was also the newspaper we were subscribed to when I was a kid (i.e. my first exposure to comic strips). May be coming out every week on Sundays from hereon in. 

Kitten for Adoption

I picked up this kitten by the side of the road some three weeks ago when I was on my way home. Someone left it to die outside in the rain and di ko naman makayang iwanan. She was real skinny at the time (mas payat pa kesa dyan sa picture) but she's got a healthy appetite ever since she was adopted by my other Siamese na kapapanganak lang (that's the adopted brother sa tabi niya sa picture). Di ko siya kayang alagaan ng matagal since I already have too many cats and other pets pa.

So do send me a message with your number if you're a cat lover willing to give this beautiful kitten a very good forever home.

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This is a rough draft of the wrap around cover for the much delayed compilation of CLASS which I only finished a few days ago. Originally slated to be released in time for the 3rd Komikon on Nov. 17 I'm delaying it again for reasons I enumerated here. My apologies to everyone who's looking forward to seeing it in print after so many years of raised expectations, please hold on for a little more. I promise you the long wait will be very much worth it.

Long before Photoshop and computer editing became available at affordable cost I was already using photos of real props I'd have a hard time drawing. I took this picture of a car from an ad those days, photocopied it, and voilà! Actually the method of using photocopied stuff in the strip was inspired by Berke Breathed in Bloom County.

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This was the last of the series of the centennial celebration. I was planning to follow it up with the assassination of Gen. Antonio Luna and the death of Gen. Gregorio Del Pilar some two years after this but things didn't push through as planned for some reason.

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This actually came out in the May, 1997 issue of the magazine during the centennial celebration of Andres Bonifacio's murder in after a kangaroo court convicted him of treason assassination. Despite a lot of media coverage going at the time reminding people of the significance of the 3 year Centennial celebration I don't a lot of them cared at all. Weird and sad if you think about it now.