“The law doesn’t shape people’s opinions, TV and Hollywood do.
I tell my students, `If you want to change the world,
be a TV or movie producer, don’t become a lawyer.`
Popular culture is the most powerful force.”

Larry Kramer, New York University Law Professor

Talecraft : Character Building Workshop

Ria Lu, Talecraft creator, has announced that the Talecraft Character Building Workshop will be on November 7, 2009, Saturday, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Powerbooks Greenbelt.

After the adventure and the wanderings, after the climax and the twists, after the final battle and the happily ever after, it is the characters that stay with us long after the book is closed.

Join us on November 7 as we talk about characters, discuss what makes them good, and share which characters have stolen our hearts.

Featuring talks by:
Budjette Tan (writer of "Trese")
Taga-ilog (creator of "Pasig")

Hope to see you all there!

As of this writing TRESE: MASS MURDERS is now available in Comic Odyssey. It will be available in bookstores and other comic book shops by next week and will be available nationwide by the end of November.

While you wait for it to arrive in a store near you, I've uploaded a 15-page preview of the book at [link]

Enjoy!

More diabolical treats for you!

TRESE: The Devil's Playground
[link]

TRESE: Masquarade (preview pages)
[link]

More TRESE art from Kajo:
[link]

Happy Halloween!

This TRESE story [link] was put together by the one-man production crew of Melvin Arciaga. I first met Melvin online at DeviantArt. He sent me a message, asking permission to cosplay Trese. I said yes and half-expected to see pictures of a girl wearing a trenchcoat taken in some dark alley. The pictures and scenes that Melvin later sent me just blew me away.

Couple of months ago, Melvin told me he'd like to do a four-page fumetti story featuring TRESE. He also made one request: his nephew Prince, a big Trese fan, wanted to appear in the story as an aswang. How could I say no to, probably, Trese's youngest fan. (Actually, he's a fan of the Kambal, according to Melvin.)

Anyway, this is just practice for Melvin, who's now gearing up to do a 200-page fumetti for his thesis. We've seen the preview art/pix and it looks great! Hope to eventually see that epic in some future Komikon!

Photographed and produced by MELVIN ARCIAGA
[link]

congrats to Team KOMIKON for another successful comic book convention!
wishing the next one will be bigger and better (and still in an airconditioned place!)

thanks to every one who bought...

a copy of Trese 3
a copy of Trese 1 & 2
a copy of Trese 1 & 2 (even though you already had copies at home, but bought a whole new set anyway!)
Trese Amulettes
anything else from the Visprint booth
a copy of SKYWORLD 1 & 2
a copy FILIPINO HEROES LEAGUE
a copy of UNDERPASS

thank you very much !!!