September 25, 2007
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Before we were interviewed by Rated K yesterday(plugging bwehehehe) Harvey Tolibao showed me the 5 Comics that was recently produced by Sterling and Carlo J. Caparas… Suffice to say, having a large company backing up comic book production, I was expecting a P10 (0.22 USD) comic book to be of satisfactory quality. Printed on newsprint, and in BW, is probably the only thing one can do at that cover price… but… meh
Back in college, our course has been rearing us to be obsessed with perfection. To us, perfection is something quantifiable and attainable, but of course we would never know it until we get it. When I broke into comics I thought whatever I learned back then was flushed down the drain. But turns out, college or no college, those same principles are actually useful. Artists are never happy with anything they create. Anything we produce is most probably half of what we have gloriously imagined in our heads. Knowing our own limitations, we are motivated to do better the next time— Continuous Improvement or some of you may know it better as “Kaizen” (Japanese for “Change for the Better” ). A quality strategy I think first developed by Toyota… college life is all hazy now hehe… Dissatisfaction is a key to perfection.
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January 11, 2007
OK
A year ago I signed up anonymously at the GMA boards. I decided to go by the name tangangbarbel. Anonymously because i don’t want to be branded with “porke’t ganito, akala mo na kung sinong magaling”. I’ve seen those remarks too often against those that gave criticisms locally… and besides everybody else […]
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November 16, 2006
Took me long enough to write about my trip to France. Straight to the point I miss France, and I barely had the time to really go around. The convention was fun and everybody was so nice and courteous. I never imagined people to be so welcoming, I mean each time we […]
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November 1, 2006
Just thought I’d tone up this request from the guys who invited us to france… I Enjoyed this so I might be doing this more often
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September 8, 2006
I had this image idle in my hard drive for quite some time now. Originally I had planned to paint the background as well, but I needed to have it done as fast as possible as this has a chance of being printed in a French Magazine. They didn’t commission this piece though, […]
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August 25, 2006
Another piece inspired by the Philippines glorious komiks past. Zuma is a character created by jim Fernandez in the late 70’s, and was translated into film by the early to mid 80s (it’s apparent I cant remember the exact year hehe). Although you can get more information about him here
His archnemesis (I guess) is […]
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August 21, 2006
Recently I’ve been itching to draw classic characters from Philippine Komiks. I felt saturated by all those characters I’ve drawn from other countries. And seeing other artworks from Deviantart.com, however beautiful they are, It felt incomplete not seeing enough local characters…
I’ve also been rating about how bad our old characters have been adapted in […]
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August 19, 2006
So concept images are up at aintitcool news and they look really cool!
On the left is Bumble bee and I never did like his original design but this one looks amazing. However I’m not sure if those are the designs that will end up in the movie or if that will be just the […]
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July 20, 2006
We’ve decided to sell pages we’ve done, mostly they’re from my run in Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four. Also up for sale are most of the pages from the first issue of Planet Hulk. Please note that the first seven pages are not the same as the pages that appeared in the book, since […]
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July 16, 2006
I wasn’t planning to go there, but I had to talk to our resident sculptor about a commission I wanted him to do, and also the constant emails I got from Azrael regarding the schedule of the event. I also had introduced him to Patrick Carlos, an avid comic book fan and […]
