Caricatures & Comic Strips

Pat was one of the artists I worked with under Animasia, an animation house back in the 90s. He was among the second batch of animators from Philippine Women’s University that was trained and hired. He owned a beetle [the old Volkswagen] back then. He’s the kind of artist that always brought sunshine into group whatever...

I had to do this in an hour and a half. The senate  blue ribbon committee hearing was almost done and ManilaSpeak needed a caricature of Ruby, summarising her testimony. Yes, she may be the first witness who ever handed money directly to a senator, the question is, is her testimony enough? Will know as the events...

ManilaSpeak.com is the first All-Opinion website in the Philippines. Here are a handful of illustrations I’ve done.

Home. When I was a kid I learned that home was where my parents and grandparents were. We were made to memorize our phone numbers and addresses. If we got lost, we were to go to the nearest police station and give the honorable policeman my address and he will take me home. When I was in college, I learned that home...

People have always told me, “You have so many interests, you have to focus on something and that will define you!” “No wonder you don’t like sleeping, you’re always doing something.” “What do you want to be? You have to be somebody. You can only chose one!” Sometimes I despair because I can’t choose. I have this...

In the beginning there was darkness. That was where all creation came from. The darkness of one’s thoughts, the murkiness of one’s womb, the shadows of sleep where dreams take shape. Creation is like a drug that gets the blood running. An idea that can drive you insane like the incessant caterwauling of cats out in the...

Sometimes the most moving pieces of work is chaos expressed, anger channeled and emptiness personified. Let our fingers remember the emotions as they paint, click, type, mold, twist their way through the medium.   And that’s all she wrote, [googleplusauthor]

Time and again, the songs that would often be a hit among tweeners would be those about friendship, courtship and being your own person. Finding your path in life and following it are two different issues. After one finds out what they want to do in life, pressures from peers and family suddenly become a burden to...

People often tell me “I can’t do what you do…you know, talk to the dead.” I’d always tell them that they can. In fact they’ve been doing it all their life and it is just known by another name. Praying. Technically you talk to the dead when you pray. There’s the saints, Jesus, Mother Mary, your parents and those that went...

I haven’t created a comic strip in decades, yet somehow this one had to be drawn…not written. Why “Noonies”? A friend of mine, Leanna, used that word to describe what we were all going through. “You know…that TV show where that alien guy went upside down in a closet and goes ‘noonie-noonie-noonie’…. ” she...