Sindak Magazine – comics page preview

The magazine is coming available by the last week of March!
thanks to KC for the big news, you can read more news about the magazine here in KC’s blog

Comic Art of Bong Dazo

published also in Azrael’s Merryland

Star Wars: KOTOR

I just updated Bong Dazo’s portfolio and website and I like to share to everyone his comic art, He’s now known for taking comic pencils on Doom, Prey, Killer 7 (2006), Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic and the new Star Wars: Force Unleashed for 2008. He’s known also for some Filipino komiks titles such as KAPITAN AKSYON, PI JOEY, WARRIORS OF THE NIGHT, TAKIPSILIM. In my previous blog post here you can see a cover of PI JOEY.

you can check out more artworks after the jump below.
I’ll be posting more cool artworks of artist in the coming days.

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Comic 101 with Manix Abrera ( video )

teleport by to clicking the link below  view and watch Manix Abrera Comics 101 in creating his comic strips Kiko Machine
Manix Abrera on Creating Kiko Machine Komix

The Art of Alex Nino 2008

got this big news from Gerry Alanguilan’s blog, read more news here and in here Auad Publishing

GALO ADOR, R.I.P.

Read the news Here

I dont know him personally, but his works in the comics Dark Pages is one of my fave! I remember that when the info from Alamat ML came about this horror comics titled Dark Pages will be released, I went down to Comic Quest and bought one for myself. It was the best come back of horror comics to me and I treasure it. It’s like me reading a local Heavy Metal magazine but the art will blow you away and will teleport you into  a different realm.

If ever I can go back to my home in Pasig City, I’ll grab my comic and re-read it again for a big tribute to Galo Ador who founded the independent comic Dark Pages

KABAYAN NEWS is looking for Filipino comic strip artists

just saw this post at the PKMB forum, thanks to Randy theValiant

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KABAYAN NEWS is looking for Filipino comic strip artists.

Send your CVs and sample works tomcpobre.valdez@ gmail.com
Contact 0921 414 9770 for details and inquiries.

http://www.kabnews.com/index.htm

Kabayan News is a weekly FilipinoNewspaper based in Italy distributed freely across countries in Europe. Itsteam is a group of energy fired migrant Filipinos in Europe who spend hourssqueezing their brains just to bring you the best free weekly
Filipino Newspaper in this continent. The mixture of different professions industryexperiences and expertise is working formula in making each issue veryinformative, accurate and reliable. In each page, you will feel [the]dedication, enthusiasm and enjoyment in bring a newspaper that [the readers]will understand and be proud of.

Michael Golden Goes on Tour For Wizard–First Stop: Los Angeles

Michael Golden Art Class at Wizard World Los Angeles!
Artist marks first LA appearance with event

click here to view photos and artworks

Los Angeles–TinselTown is getting just a little bit brighter this next weekend, as some of the comics communities stellar talents head West for Wizard World Los Angeles. Amongst them, Special Guest Michael Golden–who will be making his first appearance in Los Angeles, with a few surprises to highlight the event.

Your Comic Relief reviews The New Avengers Annual 2008

let me share this review to all of you that I found with my spider-sense.

“  Carlo Pagulayan is the penciler and Jeff Huet is the inker.  The art is busy, very busy, but not to the point that it is detracting from the story too much.  There is a lot going on in almost every panel, and it never seems to be overpowering.  To be honest though, and that’s something I strive for in these reviews, the sheer number of characters that are involved in the story is daunting; I encourage everyone that owns this comic book to open the front cover, and look at the number of characters listed there, all 36 of them.” – Read more here

Jomike Tejido’s Foldabots comics series

Jomike informed me about his Foldabots DIY-paper toy that his robot creation will be on a comic series.

It will be launched on the May 2008 issue of K-zone Philippines magazine.

you can visit his multiply website at http://foldabots.multiply.com/ for more info about the Foldabots

GLASS HOUSE GRAPHICS’ 15TH ANNIVERSARY: A Look Behind The Company That’s “Behind The Scenes”

by David Lawrence

            Homeless, a young man in tattered clothes and ratty hair steps through the trash and muck of a garbage dump.  He “lives” there.  Finding an old tire and a discarded sheet of transparent plastic, he fashions a makeshift drawing table and practices inking a comicbook page with whatever tools and supplies he can scrounge.

A married illustrator in a small foreign city works long hours as a newspaper paste-up artist to house and feed his wife — weeks away from giving birth to their daughter — on less than five dollars a day.

An unemployed commercial artist survives a tragic public bus crash where others lost their lives, only to be turned away from his hard-won job interview after arriving disheveled and bloody.

A student, poor and uncommonly thin, struggles to learn to draw comicbook pages before a congenital heart defect ends his dream and his life.  His family cannot afford to have the necessary surgery performed.

Sad stories with more in common than undiscovered talent and a love for the comicbook medium, they share a happy ending called Glass House Graphics — a company well known by editors and publishers but something of a secret to comicbook fans.

Happy Endings Are Only The Beginning

*  The homeless inker became Jeffrey Huet, star Marvel embellisher on The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, New Avengers Annual, and other titles.  He has bought a home for himself and his family.

*  The undiscovered paste-up artist was Mike Deodato, Jr., the Marvel superstar on Spider-Man, The Avengers, Hulk, Thunderbolts, and more.

*  The rejected crash survivor was Will Conrad, soon a prized inker who later became a top Dark Horse penciller on Conan, Serenity, and the upcoming Kull.

*  The artist needing open-heart surgery was Wilson Tortosa, now healthy and noted for his work on Battle of the Planets, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and the upcoming Wolverine: The Manga. 

All were discovered and trained by, with careers carefully molded and developed by, Glass House Graphics.  But they’re just the tips of the comicbook iceberg.

Celebrating its 15th Anniversary this month, Glass House Graphics is a professional service firm and agency that is home to those and 118 other artists, writers, designers, painters, and colorists hailing from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, England, Portugal, the Netherlands, Australia, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.

Founded in 1993, Glass House Graphics’ genesis came when its C.E.O. David Campiti was  founder and publisher of Innovative Corp. (Innovation Publishing) in 1988.  Under his leadership that little company became by 1991 the fourth largest comicbook publisher in the United States — its success built upon adaptations and tie-ins of books, TV shows, and films, helping the company to carve out a unique niche in the marketplace.  Among its most successful were adaptations of such Anne Rice novels as Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and The Queen of the Damned.   Securing the rights to adapt Rice was a coup that put Innovation on the map.

The company also published comics based on Piers Anthony’s On a Pale Horse; the TV series Dark Shadows, Quantum Leap, Beauty and the Beast and Lost in Space, its biggest seller; and the seminal science-fiction movie classic Forbidden Planet, all of which Campiti personally negotiated, edited, and often wrote or co-wrote.

Those were heady days for the entire industry, with an unprecedented number of publishers producing a quantity of material unmatched since the halcyon years of the Golden Age.  The extreme demand for quality artists inspired
Campiti to search far from traditional sources to fill the pages of Innovation’s expanding line of titles.

He turned first to Brazil, where a thriving market for American comics existed alongside a seamy homegrown industry that paid starvation wages to artists.  His attention initially drawn there by bootleg reproduction of Innovation titles, Campiti was impressed to discover an unexpected and untapped goldmine of talent.

Among his first discoveries from Brazil in late 1990 was the now-legendary Mike Deodato, Jr., whose earliest American work was published in the pages of Innovation’s full-color painted adaptation of the cult favorite TV series Beauty and the Beast.  Others, such as Joe Bennett, Luke Ross, and Joe Pimentel, followed as Campiti built connections to a rising roster of international talent. 

Sindak – horror thriller magazine (Preview cover)

Its a horror comic magazine for all, coming soon in your local bookstore.

got this info and cover from Randy’s blog

Kubori Kikiam interviews Taga-ilog

here’s a close up interview with comic creator Taga-ilog.

watch the video here

hehhehe. Taga-ilog is a chick !!!!!!