Finding Komikon 2010 at the Starmall Trade Hall was challenging to say the least. With unsolicited directions from a stranger who somehow sensed what I was looking for, I finally spotted the Trade ...

FOR THE longest time the culturati didn’t know how to classify the five pillars of komiks— Tony Velasquez, Francisco Coching, Mars Ravelo, Larry Alcala and Carlo Caparas—until 2014 when the Order of ...

To say that Francisco Coching, during the four decades that he put out komiks-novels from the mid-30s to the early ’70s, forever changed our perception of this popular art form would not be an ...

When Julienne Dadivas was in freshman year at St. Scholastica’s College Manila, she took a test to join the art club—and failed. She didn’t know how to use Cray-pas and actually thought of giving up ...