In 1922, Don Alejandro Roces’ eldest son, Don Ramon, entered the reins of his father’s publishing empire. By building upon his father’s accomplishments, Don Ramon established a chain of vernacular magazines beginning with the publication of the Tagalog LIWAYWAY. The Liwayway was actually a re-issue of Don Ramon’s first published magazine, the PHOTO NEWS, a news magazine jointly edited by Don Ramon Roces himself and the Filipino novelist Severino Reyes. As its title implied, the Photo News was an illustrated magazine that contained news, essays, and prose and poetry…(read more)
KIKO AT ANGGE is the very first regular komiks strip in the Philippines. Published in an obscure news-magazine called Telembang in the early 1920s, Kiko at Angge was written by Tagalog novelist Inigo Ed Regalado and illustrated by Fernando Amorsolo…(read more)
ALBUM NG MGA KABALBALAN NI KENKOY is the very first comic book that was published in the Philippines. Originally priced at 30 centavos a copy, this comic book was first launched in 1934… (read more)
HALAKHAK KOMIKS is the first regularly published komiks magasin in the Philippines. Born in 1946, Halakhak Komiks was published out of the initial efforts of Isaac Tolentino and Atty. Jaime Lucas. Since Tolentino and Atty. Lucas had no printing press, they commissioned Carmelo and Bauermann, Inc. to print the 10,000 initial issues. The maiden issue of Halakhak Komiks contained comics strips such as: Bulalakaw by Francisco V. Coching, Talahib by Francisco Reyes, Kidlat by Damy Velasquez and Jesse Santos… (read more)
IPO-IPO is presumably the first true Pinoy komiks superhero, a character created by Lib Abrena and Oscar del Rosario in April, 1947 in a Tagalog magazine called Magasin ng Pagsilang… (read more)
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