Category: Comic
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Cat illustrations with social commentary of the Philippines from the mid 2010’s to early 2020’s
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Sometimes your judgments of other people are skewed, and you don’t even realize it. It takes courage to get to know other people, and to have your pre-conceived notions challenged. It takes a willingness to go out of one’s way, to be in the land of other people, and to be in their shoes. Figuratively…
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It happened in Beirut, September 1982. It is estimated that 400 to 3,500 civilians were massacred. By daybreak, bodies were littered and piled on the streets. Bodies. Men, Women, Children. The author was a nineteen-year-old soldier at the time. He and his group were 200-300 yards away from where another group was supposed to be…
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This was funny and absurd. And to be honest, quite strange. One character is a lawyer who by an unfortunate mix-up gets imprisoned. By night, he secretly goes out and fights crime. By day, he gets back to prison. Another character is an old doctor who is said to have mastered hormones. The next day,…
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The Dark Knight Returns stands out within superhero graphic novels. [Spoilers beyond this point] After a bit of looking around, it seems that this was a turning point not only within the Batman lore and DC comics, but with comics in general. Before “The Dark Knight Returns” or TDKR, most comics were not taken very…
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Oftentimes, we learn of events in history as dates and descriptions. Stripped of other contexts, they seem like distant happenings; abstract almost. Stories, like Maus, allow us to see an individual experience, even from terrible situations like the Holocaust. We learn how events impact lives. Maus II, to a large extent, is still very personal.…
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11 million people died during the holocaust. The people in power treated them not merely as an inconvenience but like pests to be exterminated. Like rats to be hunted and cleansed off. And they did. Millions were murdered in gas chambers, burned, or shot, or left to starve. The ones that did survive, they carried…
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Clean your room so you have more joy in life. Marie Kondo says so.
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It means “go with the flow”. It’s similar to The Walking Man as it features landscapes, sceneries, and people in their urban environments. The difference is this is set in Japan’s Edo Period, or sometime around 1600’s-1860’s. The main character is a retired cartographer/surveyor. He walks around towns with a vision of mapping Japan, and…
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