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Team Komikon visited “The Queen of the South” to uphold its goal of promoting Philippine Komiks at the 1st Cebu Komiks Convention last September 25, 2010 in Ayala Cebu. Not only was it the gang’s first plane trip together, it was also my first time in Cebu.
You can say that Cebu is a cleaner, greener Metro Manila. Parts of it resemble Binondo without the jumble of overhead power cable, other parts are like Divisoria without the permanent toxic pools of something festering in the street.
At C3 itself, we promoted Komikon, the event on November 13 and our own merch and titles. Our patented Piso raffle saw wave after wave of challengers fall against the carpal might of thumb warrior princess, Syeri B-Z.
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Of course, as tourists, Team Komikon sampled the very tasty Cebu lechon. How did they get that flavor in the meat?! We also sampled the steamed fried rice at Harbor City resto at SM Cebu.
Man, just posting the images just got my craving on.
For pasalubong, the gang went to Tabo-an Market for dried fish and dried mangoes. I noticed that the vendors collect The Philippine Star, the only paper you wrap with from cover to cover. They were delighted when I showed them the Beerkada strip which featured Ariel A and Chompy, who were also standing right in front of them.
Thanks to Ray and the rest of Cebu Comics Convention for inviting us to their event. More power to Cebu komiks. Thanks also to Beerkadet Phoebe for helping us around and treating us to dimsum.
Lico, Ariel and I attended our first TVJuan gig in San Beda. Once again, Lico dazzled passers-by with his card and hand reading skills, and passed out free candy, posters and flyers to lucky raffle winners.
We also got to meet Jon Achaval, noted character actor who played the arrogant American who yells “damn flips” in Sic o’ Clock News. Awesome!
Finally, the Peace Arch hanging over the row of universities in Mendiola? It’s not a real arch.
I think it’s okay, though, coz it’s not a real peace.
Thanks to B Canapi for the invite, who as usual displayed 500 photos of his son Liam, complete with LOLbaby captions and a story for each picture.
Lyndon and Komikon will participate in the Best of Anime event in SMX pn September 19, Sunday, in SMX 2F, SM Mall of Asia.
Kitakits!
Lyndon will participate at the Book Matters event this Saturday, September 11, at Robinsons Galleria. Here are the schedule of activities:
Registration 1-1:30 pm
Workshop with komiks artists 1:30-3:00 pm
Meet and Greet with Komiks Artist -3:00 – 3:15 pm
Donation of komiks to The Children’s Library 3:-15- 3: 25 pm
Live Art with INK 3:25-4:25 pm
Meet and Greet with INK 4:25-4: 40pm
Closing 4:40-5pm
Book Matters is brought to you by the Lopez Museum.