Mark your calendars, because this Saturday is Komiket Manila in Ayala Malls Manila Bay, plus Free Comic Book Day in Fully Booked branches in Luzon and Metro Manila! Originally launched in 2002 on the first Saturday of May, Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is a global event embraced by Fully Booked. It has been an… Read More May 18: A Big Day for Local Graphic Novel/Comic Book Lovers
In a nation rich with artists and artistry (the pantheon of National Artists that students study number eighty-six as of today), we have lost one of our best. There are many of us who claimed, within his lifetime, that Floy Quintos (director, playwright, and above all, a wonderful human being) is/ was well deserving of… Read More An Artist for the Nation : Floy Quintos
“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.” Debatable to some, for sure. But I am inclined to agree with Samuel Johnson, and with Susan Sontag. Especially after having read The Three-Cornered Sun. The Philippine War of Independence is usually summed up as a racial conflict that the Filipino Katipuneros waged against Spanish… Read More Exploding Galaxies’ “The Three-Cornered Sun” by Linda Ty-Casper : A Contrapuntal Composition
