PANATA takes a temporal backseat.

For all those who are wondering...Tuloy paba yang SINAG na yan? Kumusta na kaya ang proyektong ito? Bakit wala man lang update sa blog na to? Buhay paba yung creator nyan? lol

Sa totoo lng, napakahirap maghanap ng oras para gumawa ng isang Komiks lalo na kung marami ka pang ibang nais gawin o dapat na gawin bukod dito. Una, hindi ito bayad. Para sa isang Artist na kumakayod ang bawat oras at bawat minuto ay mahalaga. Halos araw araw at gabi gabi mayroong mga bagay na mas priority bukod sa mga personal na projects na tulad nito. Yun bang mga projects na may nagbabayad...hehehe. Love lng naman talaga ang fuel para sa mga ganitong projects. Hindi ako fulltime na Comics artist at meron din naman akong Lovelife kaya meron akong excuse na isang-tabi ang PANATA kung gugustuhin ko.

Pero hindi ito ang dahilan. Sa ibaba makikita mo na meron akong isa pang ginagawang personal na project. Hindi ito konektado sa PANATA o kay Heneral SINAG. Isa itong istorya na matagal ko nang naisip gawin at siguro habang may sipag pa ako at tiyaga na gumawa ng mga ganitong klaseng mga pagkakaabalahan ay isiningit ko na ito. Ayoko magbigay ng ditalye dito sa Blog na ito sa dahilang ang space na ito ay para sa PANATA. Ang masasabi ko lamang eh mayroon na itong 50 pages at present at balak ko muna itong tapusin bago ko balikan ang PANATA. Siguro mga 50 pages pa ulit bago ito matapos...hehehe. Sa mga naghihintay ng paglipad ng SINAG, siguro kaunting pasensya pa. Nakakabato kasing mag concentrate sa isang project eh, hindi ako napapakali. KUBLI nga pala ang title niyang sa baba. Yun po muna.

The REAL Hero!!!

Dumating na yung kuha nung mga ginawa kong designs for a pinoy client sa states. Sa Sunday na din pala ang laban ni Pacman (Pinoy Time syempre) at excited nko para dito. Cotto has been saying some shit already about how he would beat our Pambansang Kamao. Bilib din ako kay Manny dahil humble lang siya at dinadaan na lng sa training yung yabang. I know he would win this one. Dapat lang maniwala tayo na mananalo siya. Dedicated kaya ang labang ito para sa lahat ng nasalanta, eh isa ako dun kaya salamat kay Pacman para dito. Mananalo Tayo!!! Kung hindi man, malay natin dayain, wala akong pakialam, isa si Manny sa aking mga REAL life superheroes kaya Go Pac Man...talunin mo si Kutto!!!

Characters to watchout other than Heneral SINAG

Mr Z: The typical rich and influential character out to conquer the world.

Artemio Bar-Bel: The old hero trying to make his mark this newage.

REPUBLIKA: The presentday heroes who struggle daily to gain respect among the public who still adore and respect the more powerful Heneral Sinag.

Leviathan: The nasty creature out to devour everything on its path

Black Narding: The hero/vigilante barred with no rules and works alone secretly at night

Let Me Explain

Haven't done new pages lately. Since Ondoy I have been very busy picking up doing delayed artworks for other projects, and I do have many infact to worry about every week. One of these is a comic book in due release for next years San Diego Comic Con. Not a very lucrative deal though but as a start it would be a nice thing to be doing for me just for the experience of this whole comic book mess I'm in right now. Due to this my attention is now converted in the comissioned comic book. I'd really hate to sacrifice PANATA but for the mere fact that it would literally make me a very busy man, in which I am very much already, I would just like to free up some load to concentrate my comicbook time on this project. You have seen how I drew PANATA in this blog, it really requires some time and having to do the two together would really make my schedule a living hell and would even affect some other non comic related commitments.

I'm thinking of continuing PANATA maybe on December and I just hope I finish the book already and write the second. Lots of plans really and I'm just thinking of even self-printing the whole thing. I'd really hate that printing topic. I would also like to consider doing it on CD, who knows?

At last Pages 25 to 26(spread) and Page 27

After Ondoy my schedule was way way off. I was emailing clients anticipating many artwork delays due to the storm. I also emailed my office trying to secure a 1 week leave of absence. Well, I'm giving myself just 1 whole week to clean all the mess Ondoy gave us. Isa pa, Mom was returning from Canada on Tuesday night so i guess the Commander in Chief will be a great addition to the effort so 1 week is just about right for the job.

Fastforward...Electricity got jumpstarted one week after the great flood. It was on a Sunday I think. I was really excited to work.(...now did I wrote that down right?) I quickly assembled the PC and charged my laptop in preparation for a gruelling week ahead. At this time I was only missing pages 25 to 27. I was laid off 1 week from PANATA...hmm...I tried doing pencils for the spread on Tuesday night while waiting for Mom to arrive. I was aided with battery charged light (yun bang motolite battery...hehe). I was alone so what the heck.

Page 27 I did just lately, while watching Ateneo and UE for the Championship. I was in the office...yes you heard that right, at the office doing the last page. We we're excused to do stuff while half of the PCs are dead due to electricity problems. I carry my comics specially for these times. I don't know if my artwork reflected UE's loss but I enjoyed watching the game. Nice one ATENEO, UST will get back at you next year. Onwards to Chapter 2 now.

Weather Update :)

Let me start this blog by Thanking God. It was a real challenging week. I've discovered lots of things about me and my family. Iba talaga pag nasusuong ka sa isang napakatinding sitwasyon, marami kang nalalaman tungkol sa mga limitations mo at sa mga ugali ng mga kasama mo sa buhay. I'm just glad we're all ok and our lives are spared. First time na bumaha ng ganon sa bahay namin. We've been living there for 30 years already ngyun lng bumaha ng ganun. Marikenyo pala ako. Salamat sa Dios talaga. We managed to save some electronic stuff like computers and some television, yung iba iniwan nlng namin sa baha. Talagang mabilis tumaas yung tubig, at yung mga kaya lng talaga namin yung na save at nadala sa second floor. Actually, ung second floor na ginawa ng tatay ko parang tree house lng nya, although its made of concrete eh wala naman talagang natutulog dun. Ngyun lng namin nalaman talaga ang naging greater purpose nung kaya pala nagawa yun. Thank God talaga. Nagmistulang Noahs ark namin yung kwarto. Naaawa ako dun sa mga neighbors namin na walang 2nd floor kse they can't save anything but themselves. Most houses sa amin are bungalow kaya just imagine the trouble they're into while the flooding. 

Sa ngyun electricity is back and also the phone lines. We've tested some appliances like the ref and the washing machine and its working naman. Mabuti dahil super daming putikang damit na lalabhan.  Hindi ko pa maibaba yung computer ko kaya hindi pa naka set up. I emailed my personal clients to tell them what happened and Thank God they are really nice to me. Salamat talaga abut abot. Yun nga lng this coming week sobrang dami kong gagawin as in tambak and I have to go to my day job din, walang pahinga. After one week of cleaning wala paring relaxation time. Even now its raining where I am and I just hope na it doesn't flood again in the nearest future, kse talagang pata na ako ng kalilinis.

Back to PANATA. 3 pages nlng and the weather changed everything. As for now I don't see the 1st chapter being printed. I decided to finish the whole PANATA book and hopefully umabot siya next year sa Comic Con. I'm thinking of finishing Chapter one as a teaser and posting it sa net. Abang abang nlng po.

Thanks be to God.

PANATA book pages 22 to 24

Wow, akalain mu 3 pages nlng and Chapter One will be finished. I've been doing this for over a month now and seeing the pages just brings me inner joy...hehehe. I'm starting to think of printing. Options are to finish the PANATA book or to print chapter one as a single comic, maybe as the teaser for the whole thing....hmmm....think, think. Kanina nga pala me and my pal Jeff Apelo went to a printing press company sa Edsa for a quotation, so I'm expecting an email later today and I just hope and pray for a reasonable price. Another dilemma would be coloring. Personally I want the pages to be colored for it to have a real collectors value...naks naman. Dream nalang eh why not dream big ika nga. I just hope my budget would fit pero I'm considering all possible options...including the classic indie look (you know what that means). We'll see.
Kala ko tapos nko sa barangay scenes...hehehe. Not that I love doing people scenes pero the eksena calls for realism. I feel the need to show the aura of a certain scene, how it would be portrayed in real life or how people would react. I just hope I'm doing an OK job with the lotsa-crowd thing. 

This scene was not included in the original draft. It was added recently to create a gap between certain scenes. It also will show some minor details about Artemio's present life, where he's been and hints of why he's...well at the bar drinking coffee.