CLASS

2012-06-22T16:58:00.000+08:00

2012-06-19T00:46:00.000+08:00

2012-06-15T08:55:00.001+08:00

Panel 1: Teacher's gone loopy. "Introduce yourselves to class" when almost everyone here knows each other.

Panel 3: Is that your speaking voice?

Panel 4: NO, MISS!

2012-06-14T08:45:00.002+08:00

Panel 1: I have aspirin, want one?
Haha! No, thanks!

Panel 2: Ginger tea? (a sore throat remedy)
That's a bit too much!

Panel 4: What happened to you?

2012-06-13T22:59:00.001+08:00

School opened today! Hooray!

Panel 1: New haircut!

Panel 2: New bag!

Panel 3: New classmates!

Panel 4: New sources of headaches.

* This was included in the batch of comic strips submitted to Manila Bulletin but it didn't see print today. Maybe tomorrow?

2012-01-26T14:14:00.001+08:00

Panel 1: Jason! I'm sorry, you know why, right?
   No, it's OK

Panel 2: I even bought you some snacks from McJolly!
   Wow! You're so sweet!

Panel 3: Hold on. Why is the burger cut in half and only a few fries?
   I got hungry.

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!

2012-01-22T11:00:00.000+08:00

Panel 1: (Chinese greetings for the new year and word of thanks)
What does those words mean?

Panel 2: Nothing really, happiness, growth and prosperity in Chinese.
Wow! I should try that.

Panel 4: WHO ARE YOU CALLING FAT CHOY?!

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

2008-08-29T21:38:00.000+08:00

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.

2007-10-02T02:04:00.000+08:00

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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.

2007-07-14T12:13:00.000+08:00

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.

2007-07-13T13:12:00.000+08:00

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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.

2007-07-12T13:50:00.000+08:00

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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.

2007-07-11T12:48:00.000+08:00

Part two of the strip below. I should continue with these plot lines.

2007-07-10T19:37:00.000+08:00

Michelle's an old friend of hers from way back, she's also level headed compared to her friend. She appeared in a couple more strips after this and I've yet to bring her back.

2007-07-09T13:24:00.000+08:00

Part of the strip below. 'Nuff said.

2007-07-08T14:15:00.000+08:00

This one's one of my favorites because this was the start of my experimentation with depths (via foreground and background). This was also the start of me establishing the details and stuff.

2007-07-07T18:56:00.000+08:00

Nobody can make the same mistake nowadays which robs the present in more ways than we can laugh at.

Uh... I don't know what that means either.

2007-07-06T18:48:00.000+08:00

Tah-daaaaaa!!! Comedy gold.

2007-07-05T18:38:00.000+08:00

Things were different back then, he tries that sorta thing with Anne these days and, BAM!!! he gets it right in the kisser.

2007-07-04T23:37:00.000+08:00

Miss those high school activities nowadays.

2007-07-03T11:04:00.000+08:00

MJ overstayed his welcome. Haha! Anyway, as you can see the words on the shirt the idea for Fil-Ams living in the country was birthed around this time with the strip centering around local professional baskteball player, Jeffrey Cariaso's friends. It was put on hold since I didn't have any venue for the comic strip and besides I was still toying with the idea. It was revived half a decade later with my stint in Philippine News. Although the premise was the same this time the characters were different.

2007-07-02T21:48:00.000+08:00

This was an easy idea, I loved the old local Christmas album that featured various singers famous during the 70s and early 80s (something similar to the "A Very Special Christmas" album). I know a lot of young people probably don't have any idea who they were but they'll still be familiar with the songs from that record. They should be because about a third of the songs in there was remade by some of today's talents. The same music company later came out with another album similar to the first one but it didn't make the cut as its predecessor.

2007-06-30T12:08:00.000+08:00

This was a spontaneous idea. I wish I could do more "silent" strips, unfortunately trying to deliberately come up with one is a lot harder than coming up with a dialogue going.

2007-06-29T13:47:00.000+08:00

Would you believe I was flabbergasted to know that Alanis Morissette dropped by to do a concert when I read this recently? I was like, "WHEN?!" Hehe. Yeah, I freak myself out.

2007-06-28T17:27:00.000+08:00

Just another birthday strip for Jeff, 'nuff said.