Filipino Komiks Masters

April 21, 2009 5:10 PM

The Philippine Comics Art Museum. 1940's to the present.
posted by tellurian (8 comments total)

Nice find tellurian. Alex Niño is one of the few of my art heroes from my teens who still holds up.
posted by doctor_negative at 5:40 PM on April 21, 2009

Yeah, I use to collect Alex Niño back in the day. But while Nestor Redondo was a fine artist, he was no Wrightson, and Swamp Thing was never the same when he took over.

There seems to be an extensive tradition of acadmic/classical realism in the Philippines, none of that weak manga stuff. I've taken a few classes with this guy, not a comics guy but an excellent realist.
posted by Bron at 7:01 PM on April 21, 2009

Darna!
posted by linux at 9:54 PM on April 21, 2009

Great find. I'll be clicking away as I tuck into this plate of pork sisig.
posted by benzenedream at 12:23 AM on April 22, 2009

I'll be clicking away as I tuck into this plate of pork sisig.
Did you make it yourself, traditional or modern?
posted by tellurian at 4:40 AM on April 22, 2009

W00t. I am so interested in komiks (and Darna! I love her!) but they are pretty hard to come by in the US.
posted by Tesseractive at 7:56 AM on April 22, 2009

Absolutely awesome find. On a similar vein, I was wandering the net looking for inspiration and came across Polish film posters. Essentially a Polish remix of classic movie posters.
posted by n3rt at 1:23 AM on April 23, 2009

Yeah, this is good stuff.
posted by 6550 at 6:42 PM on April 24, 2009