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Filipino superstitions, folklore, and religion take the spotlight in a Filipino comic book about twin brothers who find themselves reliving the lore they heard from their grandmother in their childhood.Carnal Tales masterfully blends elements from Filipino folklore and Catholicism to create a rich ...

Award-winning comic artist and writer Gerry Alanguilan passed away on December 21, 2019, and comics giant Marvel, with whom he had worked, has written a fitting tribute to celebrate his skills."We all mourn the loss of a great man and offer our thoughts ...

The DC cinematic universe gave us many great and terrible things. Jared Leto as The Joker. Bald Jesse Eisenberg. Sad Ben Affleck. But among all the glorious disasters of Warner Bros.'s ever-crumbling superhero movieverse, the Superman Mustache fiasco was among the very best.To refresh, ...

After months of searching and endless online debates, the new Darna has finally arrived in the form of Jane Florence Benitez De Leon, a 20-year-old talent under Star Magic. De Leon now shoulders the responsibility of portraying the most iconic heroine in ...

He has, as a colleague pointed out to me last week, the jaw for it. He also has, as Hollywood types like to say, the chops. And now, if rumor is to be believed (it so often isn’t, but indulge us), Robert ...

Filipino comic book fans went into a frenzy when it was revealed that Marvel finally decided to give the Philippines some representation in their superpowered universe with Wave. Fortunately, I got the chance to talk to the man behind the Filipina superhero.Film director and ...

When the cover of the digital comic series Comedians Reborn was posted on Facebook earlier this month, it immediately went viral on social media, with several news agencies picking up the story.The cover, an eye-catching and colorful work of art, brought together ...

JV Tanjuatco was in the middle of doing his master’s thesis at the Asian Institute of Management when an unlikely idea hit him: setting up a comic book publishing business.Being an MBA student, his first concern was its financial viability. He noticed ...

Komiks—the colloquial term for Filipino comics—were long regarded as a lower form of art, beneath paintings and sculptures; and yet, it was the work of a singular artist that helped shape the public consciousness in the mid-1900s. Francisco V. Coching, the “Dean ...