This is not my Exhibition (that’s the 11th next year). This one features Elizabeth Chionglo of Loveknots fame.
The theme is Asian Environmental Issues.
Grand Opening: January 16-31 . Main Mall Atrium, SM Mall of
ADMISSION IS FREE!
For inquiries, please call the Japan Foundation,
or log on to www.jfmo.org.ph
Why am I posting all the Beerkada strips online?
First of all, the current trend in the Internet is free content. Online magazines and shifting away from the paid subscription model and going for ad revenues. Google AdSense and similar systems are making this possible.
That means I’d rather have a lot of you visit this site regularly and click on the ads you like than pay for access. Heck, if you decide to buy the Beerkada books and goodies because you like what you see here and are eager to support it, then I’m all for it.
Second, I still get a lot of english language-only fans who clamor for translated strips. So if you want the english version, visit the site. If you prefer the original taglish, read The Philippine Star. Or buy the books.
Third, webcomics are already popular overseas (Penny-Arcade.com’s PAX is currently the US’s largest gamer convention) but local webcomics still have a long way to go. Beerkada.net may help popularize the concept that you don’t need the conceit of the printed page to validate your work.
Because the bigshots will walk all over you if you let them. And we’ve always excuse such behavior with social inertia (‘It’s always been that way’) or victim mentality (‘What can I do?”). We don’t have to play their game, anymore.
So bookmark this site for your regular fix of Beerkada. Read all the storylines you missed out. Visit your favorite strips again and again. And please support this site.
Because the bigshots they can go eff themselves.
Last September, a local daily broadsheet removed 7 comic strips to make way for Carlo J. Caparas’s diyaryoserye. Among these were Elizabeth Chionglo’s Love Knots, Steven Pabalinas’ Divine Comedy, and Jomike Tejido’s Mikrokosmos.
Eventually, Love Knots returned, and some of the other comic strips returned as well.
The foreign comic strips.
What gets me is that the local comic strips artists are already earning a pittance from their work and are doing it for the love of the medium, and they were callously replaced by some bigshot who’s throwing his weight around. He was enabled by a newspaper whose background was defending the little guys from political bigshots who throw their weight around. And all of us end up having less alternatives to choose from.
That isn’t right.
And so I decided to start posting the entire Beerkada archive on this website. For free. These are translated to english to appeal to the international audience.
Hopefully, all nine years of Beerkada will be online by the end of 2008, for your reading pleasure.
That is right!
The Beerkada Comics Website is under renovation. Please bear with us while we try to get a hold of the in-s and out-s of the ComicPress Theme. Hopefully, the site will be fully up and running by January 1.. or 31.. 
In the mean time, you can still view the previous site at the old Beerkada Comics website.
Thank you for your support and patience.
Chomp! ^_^
