COSPLAY ALERT: Hunger Games Cosplay Tribute

Tributes! Happy Hunger Games!!! Wanna Be Katniss Or Peeta? (or Gale, Rue, Cato, Haymitch, Effie or even Cinna?) Here is your Chance to have your favorite Hunger Games Character Come to Life! On August 25, 2012, the Grandest of All Event will Happen at SM Events Center, SM Megamall. Join Us as we celebrate The Hunger Games Cosplay Tribute! Brought To You By The Hunger Games by C-Interactive Digital Entertainment & C-Interactive Digital Entertainment In cooperation with Astroplus and Hunger Games Philippines... Register Now!

COMIXHUB: Mico Suayan Interview

I has been a great time talking to MICO SUAYAN during the Comicxhub book signing event. I just learned that you don't need to go out of the country to be part of comic book companies with the help of technology. And with more opportunities opening for comic book artists, Its really fun to be a komik artist here in the Philippines! He also made a cameo in the comics he made.

He shares that Well to make things short, here is the video of our interview with Mico Suayan during the event:

PART 1

PART 2

Kwentillion Young Adult Readers Conference

Kwentillion Magazine, in cooperation with National Book Store, would like to invite fans and readers of Young Adult books to the 1st Kwentillion Young Adult Readers Conference, to be held on July 21 (Saturday), from 1-5PM, at the National Book Store Bestsellers branch at Robinson’s Galleria.

Krisis Memes!

Though still working on another round of Krisis Komix strips soon, I made some memes with the different characters of Krisis like Jessie, Becky , Yu Jin and many more soon! Enjoy!

KOMIKON INDIEKET This July 14!

After the very successful KOMIKON at the Bayanihan Center in Pasig. Indeed the time was not enough for the public to get to know more about the independent komiks that is the growing community (especially with our group in Indie Komiks Manila). Komikon creats a new event that spotlights on the Indie Komiks with the first Indieket 2012.

The 1st Komikon Grand Independent Komiks Market. A mini-event from Komikon. This will happen at the Bayanihan Center in Pasig on July 14 with an entrance fee of only 30 pesos! 

Visit http://www.komikon.org/ for more details.

Like us at http://www.facebook.com/Indieket and follow our tweets at http://www.twitter.com/indieket

And, here's the map and instructions going to Bayanihan Center: http://www.komikon.org/map-to-bayanihan-center/ (from last Summer Komikon 2011)

COMICXHUB: Mico Suayan Signing Event

On Saturday July 7, 2012, COMICX HUB - The largest Online Comics Shop in the country, brings you yet another comic signing event, this time with famed MARVEL Artist MICO SUAYAN, as he brings out his pen for PUNISHER #13 and #14!

Starting at 2PM the artist known for THOR, X-MEN LEGACY and BATMAN ARKHAM UNHINGED will be gracing the walls of the COMICX HUB Warehouse in PASIG CITY.

To ensure you do not miss out on your copies of these, PRE- ORDERS for the upcoming books can be made here:

http://comicxhub.com/index.php?route=product%2Fcategory&path=59_66_254

Comes with a CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY!

Limited copies of MICO SUAYAN Varaint cover of Harbinger Avaialble too for signing :)

PLUS Sketch-a-thon guests include:

Carlo San Juan

Allen Geneta

Julius Villanueva

Ernest Fiestan

Ariel Atienza

FCBD 2012: Free Tattoo from Comic Odyssey

FREE Tattoos with your FREE DC 52 comic!? By Jim Lee!

Sketch For Mang Tony (A Fund Raising for Tony De Zuniga)

This Free Comic Book Day (May 5, 2012), aside from getting free comics is also a time for comic book lovers and supporters to help one Filipino comic legend, Tony De Zuniga, who worked on Jonah Hex is now in need of support in his hospital expenses. Indie Komiks Manila, Comicxhub, Comic Odyssey, FlipGeeks will have a fund rasing campaign to with SKETCH FOR MANG TONY that will happen on May 5 at Comic Odyssey in Robinsons Galeria and Comicxhub office, 3rd floor, Bloomingdale Plaza, Shaw Bouleveard.

Show your support this FCBD and lets all help Mang Tony as our prayers for his recovery is also underway. 

Free Comic Book Day 2012!

This year, Free Comic Book Day is back this May 5, 2012 and the fun gets more exciting with another IKM project for Free Comic Book Day 2012 featuring the works of Komik artists and teasers for the upcoming Komikon. Comicxhub has joined to make another Indie komik compilation for FCBD 2012. Comic Odyssey is also getting prepared with a new relocated store. Thus this would make people lining up very early how they will make it as the first to be in the line. 

Excited what titles will I get this FCBD!  Celebrate FREE COMIC BOOK DAY with us this Saturday, May 5, 2012 at our Robinsons Galleria branch. The fun begins at 10:30 am.

See you all there!

KOMIKON 2012: Independent Komiks Tiangge Participants!

Summer Komikon 2012 is just around the corner as May comes in and makes you realize that time surely flies so fast! And it means another year of Komiks and the most exciting is the Independent Komiks Tiangge that will feature independent comic creators. Unfortunately, I failed to reach the registration, but it was an opportunity for me to not to pressure myself and enjoy Komikon. Well there has been an increase of new indie komiks this year as the number of the members of Indie Komiks Manila also increased. Here are the list of the Komik creators and the comic companies they represent.


Here are the titles released by the Indie Comic Groups:

Summer KOMIKON 2012!

This year Summer Komikon 2012 gets hotter just like the weather as it will be filled with komiks, komiks and many other things still related to komiks! The event has been the most awaited event of the season. It was so in demand that the Independent Komiks slots were filled in less than a day! I actually failed to get a slot, but this means I have more time to go around the place and enjoy the komikon just like I did before. So Mark your Calendars now for May 26 at the Bayanihan Center in Pasig City from 10 am to 7 pm!


Specials for this years Komikon are Elemer Damaso, Freely Abrigo and Heubert Khan Michael. There will be also the Independent Komiks Tiangge and a 24 Hour Comic Creation Contest. Get to meet your favorite comic book artists and also their latest work hot and fresh and of course have them signed!


For more information visit www.komikon.org.
Mabuhay ang Pinoy Komiks!

I Will If You Will Campaign for Earth Hour

Since we do support Earth Hour for its contribution in saving electricity that will in turn conserve a lot of natural resources that are quickly vanishing even up to this date, the campaign of switching off lights at home and establishments has become a very successful one especially here in the Philippines. But the war is still not yet over as many are still rely on these resources for energy and livelihood.

Now the World Wildlife Fund Philippines (WWF Philippines) made this campaign of "I WILL IF YOU WILL" to challenge ourselves in being better people that have do care for our mother earth, as earth hour goes beyong the hour of switching off into a long term and achievable task which will benefit nature.

Here I have a commitment I made with Krisis Komix. Go Ahead and make your own now and post it on the facebook of WWF Philippines!  

Alodia's Birthday Bash DOTA Tournament

The Cosplay Godess Alodia Gosiengfiao is celebrating her birthday and she will celebrate it with  her loyal fans and friends this March 31 at the SM City North EDSA Annex Cyberzone.

There will be a lot of competition that will also happen on that day. Like the DOTA 1 Tournament with Mineski-Dota! Pre-Qualifiers at Mineski Infinity TAFT on March 25! Top 4 teams will compete at the finals at Alodia's Birthday Bash on March 31! (No Entrance Fee) Each team will consist of 5 members.

Prizes for DoTA Finals on March 31: Champion wins P7500 + Razer gaming goodies, 2nd Place wins P5000 + Razer gaming goodies, 3rd Place P3000 + Razer gaming goodies!

MECHANICS:

The tournament will be open to the following participants:

• 6 Class S teams from GMPGL (based on overall points)

• 1 Class A team from GMPGL (champion team on 4-3)

• 1 Malaysian Guest Team Orange E-sports

Mechanics

• Tournament format will be single eliminations

• GMPGL rules will be used as basis

http://facebook.com/mineskidota

http://facebook.com/AlodiaBirthdayBash

Krisis Komix Celebrates Eath Hour!

It Earth Hour once again and this also means the 3rd anniversary of Krisis Komix! And this time we hope to be more involved in helping spread the word of saving mother earth by conserving energy in our home and businesses. 

With just an hour of switching off lights we can save a lot of energy that consume oil and other natural resources that can never be replenished ever again. 

And let's all have fun and enjoy performances and activities during this worldwide event. The Philippines has been one of the  biggest participants for Earth Hour with more cities participating plus business centers and establishments.

To all Cebuanos and Davaeños! WWF will also hold official Earth Hour switch-off ceremonies in your cities! See you at the Plaza Independencia (Cebu) or at SM City Davao on March 31!

Happy Earth Hour and Happy Anniversary Krisis Komix!

BLTX Today Until Tomorrow!

Better Living Through Xeroxography or BLTX is a small-press expo now on its second incarnation, the first one a success by indie standards: 30 small press publishers and 200 buyers on a rainy December day in 2010.

The goal of BLTX is simple. Bring together independent self-publishers from Metro Manila (hopefully from elsewhere, too), in a one-night event that will allow them to sell their wares: books, yes, but also zines and other printed materials like shirts, postcards, posters, and this year, CDs from musicians more indie than indie. It’s about selling, but also about meeting like-minded individuals who believe in literature and creative work that might not ever get into the mainstream of commercial bookstores and galleries, but for one night is the star of the show.

You can also just imagine BLTX to be the coolest meet-and-greet between writers and readers, one that involves beer, some music, and plenty of creativity you rarely see. 

This year though BLTX will also be space for productive discussions on the making | marketing | selling of the self-published book, where practical aspects of actual independent book production will be shared by those who have survived it with sanity intact. BLTX Talks will happen the day after the BLTX small-press expo, a full six hours of four different panels that will answer central questions about PRINT PUBLISHING, ONLINE / WEB PUBLISHING, RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION, and COMMUNITY. All necessarily in light of the industry of independent self-publishing, and all against the traditional forms of cultural production as we know it in these shores.

This year BLTX will happen at Ilyong's, Kalantiaw, Project Four, Cubao from 8:00pm until Tomorrow at 8:00pm.