Day 364: Hero

Yesterday I mentioned personal as a theme for this month, what do I mean by this? When I conceptualize this project I thought that this will serve as my way of educating and inspiring people on a single photo that I've shoot that day. In order to do so I thought it would be better that in each month or weeks there will be a theme that I will focus on for better story telling and for it to look more organize ^_^

Anyways for this month its personal. For me photography is a very personal medium, its a way of expressing my thoughts and feelings about anything. For this month I'll introduce myself day by day by the photos that I will post.

For 2nd day the title is hero. I'm an anime/manga/comics fan since elementary and it has a huge influence to who I am today. Mga Munting Pangarap ni Romeo,Card Captor Sakura, V for Vendetta are some stories in which I've learned a lot about real life, such as friendship, dreams and love. I think I'll be a fan of these literary pieces for the rest of my life and if ever I'll have children of my own I'll share these inspiring stories to them.

komiks!!!!

I'm always fascinated in the world of comics growing up reading Funny Komiks and sharing the adventures of Combatron,Petit, Tomas and Kulas and Eklok. Those light and action pack stories always makes me laugh and taught me a lot of stuff about life.

Last Saturday I attended the Metro Comic Con 2011 at SM Megamall and was able to meet up with some of the great artists and story tellers of comics. From the re-known artist of V for Vendetta, Mr.David Llyod to the promising writer Mr. Budjette Tan of the local phenomenon Trese, I was overwhelm to shake their hands and express my appreciation to their works. Then, I was able to see lots and lots of comics from the western to the local ones. Its good to see a lot of local artists selling their works (they remind me of the doujinshi event episode in Genshiken :)


I noticed that most of the local artists are still into manga or western style of drawing their but some of them have this distinctive quality that gives a feeling of a Pinoy made work like Trese. Cha my good friend told me about this comic book about a lady name Alexandra Trese who solves folklore cases in Metro Manila. Its not a first that Filipino comics made a story out of folklores but what is different with Trese is the setting of this folklore tale. Its a combination of modern crime scenes wherein the culprits are manananggals,aswang,tyanaks and other folklore characters. Its a good story for the new generation of Filipino youth to learn and appreciate our legends.



Only a few cosplayers are present in this event which are mostly western characters but with some anime and manga cosplayers. This is good change of phase for me because I've been working with them for the past 6 months ^_^

I'm happy to attend this event and its quite a breather from my hectic school and work schedules. Its a privilege to see, meet and witness the beautiful and interesting works of this master story tellers and artists.

Kampai to the comics world!!