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| Our last Komikon with daVerge. Original photo by +Renie Palo |
He will be most dearly missed :(
Showing posts with label Bayan Knights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bayan Knights. Show all posts
Friday, August 22, 2014
Goodbye, Vergil...
This is the post that we did not want to write, but yesterday, August the 21st, we lost our friend, Vergil Espinosa.
We just want to remember him now as a beautiful soul who laughed with us, shared dreams with us, and always, always kept the faith.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Our friends are alive!!!
After six agonizing days, we finally heard from +Jay Acosta! At 6:13 a.m. today, he sent this message via sms, "Ate Rob, me, my bro and my cousins are alive but my house is gone. Tacloban is in chaos. Please pray for my city :("
We immediately called him up, and what followed was a long conversation that alternated between sobs and rambling expressions of relief. He spoke of the moment the storm shattered their windows and it felt like their house "exploded from inside." He spoke of the nightmare days that followed, searching on foot for supplies in the city he grew up in but now lay in ruins all around him. He told us about how, in the debris-strewn streets, complete strangers would greet each other, asking "kamusta," "how are you, did you lose your house too?"
It was in one of these sorties to their former downtown that he saw another friend, Nico Medroso, whom we had also been worried about. Jay said Nico and his family, including his little baby, survived as their neighborhood was farther away from the areas battered by the storm surge. They may be planning to leave Tacloban soon and we've updated the Google Person Finder record we created for Nico with this new information. We're hoping we'll also get to hear from Nico himself once his family is settled and safe.
Jay is on his way now to Manila, with his brother and his brave younger sister who traveled all the way back to their former home, stopping at nothing until she found her brothers. We have to say we're immensely thankful she succeeded in finding them and that all three siblings are well.
Before we said goodbye, Jay told us he would like to join our old gang at this Saturday's +Komikon. We said everyone would be beyond happy to see him again. We'll spend the day talking about all things geek, browsing through new comics, and laughing about BK boybands (long story) among other things. Not because we want Jay to forget what he has been through, no one possibly could; but because we would like Jay to know, even for just a few hours, that it's all right to heal.
We immediately called him up, and what followed was a long conversation that alternated between sobs and rambling expressions of relief. He spoke of the moment the storm shattered their windows and it felt like their house "exploded from inside." He spoke of the nightmare days that followed, searching on foot for supplies in the city he grew up in but now lay in ruins all around him. He told us about how, in the debris-strewn streets, complete strangers would greet each other, asking "kamusta," "how are you, did you lose your house too?"
It was in one of these sorties to their former downtown that he saw another friend, Nico Medroso, whom we had also been worried about. Jay said Nico and his family, including his little baby, survived as their neighborhood was farther away from the areas battered by the storm surge. They may be planning to leave Tacloban soon and we've updated the Google Person Finder record we created for Nico with this new information. We're hoping we'll also get to hear from Nico himself once his family is settled and safe.
Jay is on his way now to Manila, with his brother and his brave younger sister who traveled all the way back to their former home, stopping at nothing until she found her brothers. We have to say we're immensely thankful she succeeded in finding them and that all three siblings are well.
Before we said goodbye, Jay told us he would like to join our old gang at this Saturday's +Komikon. We said everyone would be beyond happy to see him again. We'll spend the day talking about all things geek, browsing through new comics, and laughing about BK boybands (long story) among other things. Not because we want Jay to forget what he has been through, no one possibly could; but because we would like Jay to know, even for just a few hours, that it's all right to heal.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Artist Vergil Espinosa Battles Kidney Failure
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| A real hero fighting the good fight |
So, we're mailing Verge a little package tomorrow and hopefully we'll be able to send him another later on. Those of you who would like to send Verge comics and sketch pads too can mail the package to 78-B Don Ramon St., Talayan Village Q.C. If you are a local creator and can spare extra issues of your work, we're sure he'd love to see your books too.
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| Gifts for a good friend |
Other comics creators are doing what they can to lend a hand too. International comic book artist Gerry Alanguilan recently auctioned off the original inked art to Indestructible Hulk #2 Page 12 for Vergil's benefit. The auction ends today, but if the deadline will be extended, we'll post an update here. You could also check out the related Flipgeeks article.
We're looking forward to seeing Verge again at the next comics event. Just like old times.
Rock on, Verge. Mahal ka namin!
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| Verge with fellow Bayan Knights creators Renie Palo, Nidgel Bailon, and Jon Paloma |
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| At a Bayan Knights meeting with the Sarge himself, Gilbert Monsanto |
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| Verge and Lapis Ko To co-founder, John Becaro at the 2010 Metrocon |
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| Verge at the 2011 Summer Komikon with inker Ray Ferrer |
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| Verge and the Bayan Knights roster of creators at the 2011 Komikon (Photo by Renie Palo) |
Monday, May 24, 2010
Vote For Your Favorite BK Artist
Hey there, guys! Just want to have some fun and get the fans involved for selecting the next "Featured Artist" for Bayan Knights issue #5.
We picked at least 6 from our top artists and let you guys decide who should get the spot. The two artists who gets the most scores will be featured on an article written by one of our very own. Heheh...
Here are your choices...
* Aaron Felizmenio (Gwapoman 2000)
* Erico Calimlim (Pag-Asa)
* RH Quilantang (Manila Man)
* Gio Paredes (Kalayaan)
* Gener Pedriña (Sanduguan)
* Wan Mañanita (Ang Morion)
The poll can be found here "VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE BK ARTIST!"
And as they always say, remember to "vote wisely!" :)
*Artists have been selected for doing their best in releasing as much books as they can during our numerous conventions.
We picked at least 6 from our top artists and let you guys decide who should get the spot. The two artists who gets the most scores will be featured on an article written by one of our very own. Heheh...
Here are your choices...
* Aaron Felizmenio (Gwapoman 2000)
* Erico Calimlim (Pag-Asa)
* RH Quilantang (Manila Man)
* Gio Paredes (Kalayaan)
* Gener Pedriña (Sanduguan)
* Wan Mañanita (Ang Morion)
The poll can be found here "VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE BK ARTIST!"
And as they always say, remember to "vote wisely!" :)
*Artists have been selected for doing their best in releasing as much books as they can during our numerous conventions.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
EARN FROM ADSENSE?
I AM NOT HAPPY!
As a customer and As a person who trusted a COMPANY to HELP me in small little ways, is now very frustrated.
I just got informed through email that I won't be receiving any payments from them (ADSENSE), because of "Generating Invalid Activity". I just want to know WHY and HOW did they come up with that conclusion?!
I asked friends from all of my social networking site to visit my blog and heavily promoted ADSENSE, and they responded very well. Some of my friends in the U.S. and locally said that the ads are very helpful and they'd come back (some, almost everyday) to check new ads that could be very helpful for them. Specially those in the arts community that I am very much active and which I earn greater amount of money than here. But like everything else that tied up to a big company, you have RESPECT for them and never thought that they'd gonna do this to you.
$100 is so small, YES, very small as an earning for almost 2 years. They can have the $100 and I don't mind. I don't care if I don't get it. They can have it. But I HOPE, they could just give me a specific, very precised report to what really had happened why I did get axed from their payment list.
If they gonna tell me that, because 3 to 5 people on my blog list frequently clicked my ads or in a day all of a sudden they'd all clicked to adsense from my blog, then that is ridiculous! Very ridiculous. I cannot tell them to click or not to click even if I don't have new entry here. Would that be a ground for me (or alot of users of ADSENSE) for them to conclude that I did commit "Generating Invalid Activity"?
So, aslong as I don't have any concrete and defined reason to How or WHY I got my AdSense Account Disabled, I will stick to my mind that "THEY JUST USED ME AS A FREE ADVERTISING ARM TO PROMOTE THEM AND OTHER PEOPLE".
How about you? Haven't you thought about that?
Ohh...SIDE NOTE:
If all of a sudden my blog (this blog), would suddenly disappears, you guys know why. Don't think I removed it.
Robin's postscript: This is a sad development after over a year of admittedly encouraging family and friends to visit our blog and check out the ads. But this be the way this cookie crumbles and we all just best move on.
Still, I can't help but think of how we started out with the Adsense program hoping it could help somehow in defraying the cost of our future wedding. Myke and I both have other means of employment and it's true that $100 dollars would have just been a drop in the bucket in the long run... but, for something this important, every drop counts :(
We're both the eldest children in our families and we both have considerable obligations to meet. We take all sorts of jobs on the side just to help things along, so yeah we're grateful for any reprieve that can come our way.
In any case, we've both learned from this and although we've lost our Google ads, we still have our widgets from Amazon Associates. Basically, if you go to www.amazon.com from our blog and place an order, then we get a wee bit back. They've got these adorable widgets too that let us share with you the items we like -- downloadable mp3s mostly :D and DVDs, plus comics but we still need to update our list, eheh.
If you've clicked on our ads, thank you so much. Myke and I have always appreciated your support.
And just so we can end this debacle on a positive note, we hope you can drop by tomorrow, 17 April 2010, at the U.P. Bahay ng Alumni in the U.P. Diliman Campus for the Summer Komikon Fiesta 2010 and the launch of Bayan Knights #4. Last year's first Summerkon was loads of fun and though the heat is likelier to be literally more intense this year, it's an event the true comics fan shouldn't miss. See you there!
(Photo is of Clawie and me at the last Summerkon ^_^ )
As a customer and As a person who trusted a COMPANY to HELP me in small little ways, is now very frustrated.
I just got informed through email that I won't be receiving any payments from them (ADSENSE), because of "Generating Invalid Activity". I just want to know WHY and HOW did they come up with that conclusion?!
I asked friends from all of my social networking site to visit my blog and heavily promoted ADSENSE, and they responded very well. Some of my friends in the U.S. and locally said that the ads are very helpful and they'd come back (some, almost everyday) to check new ads that could be very helpful for them. Specially those in the arts community that I am very much active and which I earn greater amount of money than here. But like everything else that tied up to a big company, you have RESPECT for them and never thought that they'd gonna do this to you.
$100 is so small, YES, very small as an earning for almost 2 years. They can have the $100 and I don't mind. I don't care if I don't get it. They can have it. But I HOPE, they could just give me a specific, very precised report to what really had happened why I did get axed from their payment list.
If they gonna tell me that, because 3 to 5 people on my blog list frequently clicked my ads or in a day all of a sudden they'd all clicked to adsense from my blog, then that is ridiculous! Very ridiculous. I cannot tell them to click or not to click even if I don't have new entry here. Would that be a ground for me (or alot of users of ADSENSE) for them to conclude that I did commit "Generating Invalid Activity"?
So, aslong as I don't have any concrete and defined reason to How or WHY I got my AdSense Account Disabled, I will stick to my mind that "THEY JUST USED ME AS A FREE ADVERTISING ARM TO PROMOTE THEM AND OTHER PEOPLE".
How about you? Haven't you thought about that?
Ohh...SIDE NOTE:
If all of a sudden my blog (this blog), would suddenly disappears, you guys know why. Don't think I removed it.
Robin's postscript: This is a sad development after over a year of admittedly encouraging family and friends to visit our blog and check out the ads. But this be the way this cookie crumbles and we all just best move on.
Still, I can't help but think of how we started out with the Adsense program hoping it could help somehow in defraying the cost of our future wedding. Myke and I both have other means of employment and it's true that $100 dollars would have just been a drop in the bucket in the long run... but, for something this important, every drop counts :(
We're both the eldest children in our families and we both have considerable obligations to meet. We take all sorts of jobs on the side just to help things along, so yeah we're grateful for any reprieve that can come our way.
In any case, we've both learned from this and although we've lost our Google ads, we still have our widgets from Amazon Associates. Basically, if you go to www.amazon.com from our blog and place an order, then we get a wee bit back. They've got these adorable widgets too that let us share with you the items we like -- downloadable mp3s mostly :D and DVDs, plus comics but we still need to update our list, eheh.
If you've clicked on our ads, thank you so much. Myke and I have always appreciated your support.
And just so we can end this debacle on a positive note, we hope you can drop by tomorrow, 17 April 2010, at the U.P. Bahay ng Alumni in the U.P. Diliman Campus for the Summer Komikon Fiesta 2010 and the launch of Bayan Knights #4. Last year's first Summerkon was loads of fun and though the heat is likelier to be literally more intense this year, it's an event the true comics fan shouldn't miss. See you there!(Photo is of Clawie and me at the last Summerkon ^_^ )
Thursday, January 28, 2010
January 2010
This will be my first entry for year 2010. I guess everyone wondered why I stopped writing…well, Robin and I have become busy with work in and out of our office and whenever she and I have a day of rest, we grab it and be lazy the whole day.
It’s tiring to work 8 to 10 hours a day and be up early Saturday too. Sunday would be a rest day, but we visiting my family at Navotas to make my nieces happy (they too make us happy). We missed them so much, and they’re so cute.
We always tried to go back to writing here (and I think I did…regarding the last POWERADE basketball team…which when I started to upload it, it hanged and everything just vanished...PAKSYETH!), but still we can’t get nuff time. Robin and I even think of a new page/title for blogging. We planned to call it “YAYAB and WIFEY! – Journey to food tripping”, but that too was shelve for now.
But a little rundown on what happed to us when were absent from blogging.
GRAND EVENT:
Our 1st year Anniversary! And still going strong!
1. We went to Davao with her sister to visit their mom last September. Davao is so beautiful. Love the food. The beach. The history of that place. I love to go back there again. Soon.
2. We went to the 5th Comicon with my youngest brother Matt Renz and my niece Fae. That was a lot of fun. The kids specially Faye enjoyed meeting those creators and artist (she met Ian Sta. Maria, Ka'jo, most of BK people, Gerry Alanguilan, Jonas and alot more)…ohh and the dancing ala Michael Jackson - Spiderman. (Seriously!)
3. She (Robin) writes an article for Playboy Magazine (Philippines) for their December Issue. Common guys, get out of your house and buy that issue! (My wifey is a very good writer and she is my editor for the Claw: Re-told)
4. We spend Christmas Eve with my family at Navotas and went to Ayala Alabang to her Auntie Billie on the afternoon of Christmas day. Met there for the first time their Uncle Mayok, who lives at Edmonton, Canada. And also Tita Ada and her pretty and talented daughter (just like wifey here) Katy.
5. Spent New Year with my family and have to leave 5a.m. to be with her (miss her already). And we went to her grand-parent’s house for a New Year get together. It's my second time to be with them on this annual family gathering. It was fun and much relaxed now. I had fun talking to Tita Neyri and Tita Leny. And I love her lola Rosie's Menudo Lengua. Robin loves the shrips.
I bonded with the boys. Drinking session with Tito Leo, Tito Lui and Lolo Romy. That ROCKS! Lolo even opened up two bottles of wine. I love that Autralian wine. Now if only I could remember the name. :P
6. Now, busy with comic pages. Robin, busy with her office work and she's kinda sick lately, most probably it's because of the current weather we're having. But been taking good care of her. :D
Now, I hope this will be the great startup and a fresh start for blogging.
So, see you guys again. Thanks for reading.
It’s tiring to work 8 to 10 hours a day and be up early Saturday too. Sunday would be a rest day, but we visiting my family at Navotas to make my nieces happy (they too make us happy). We missed them so much, and they’re so cute.
We always tried to go back to writing here (and I think I did…regarding the last POWERADE basketball team…which when I started to upload it, it hanged and everything just vanished...PAKSYETH!), but still we can’t get nuff time. Robin and I even think of a new page/title for blogging. We planned to call it “YAYAB and WIFEY! – Journey to food tripping”, but that too was shelve for now.
But a little rundown on what happed to us when were absent from blogging.
GRAND EVENT:
Our 1st year Anniversary! And still going strong!
1. We went to Davao with her sister to visit their mom last September. Davao is so beautiful. Love the food. The beach. The history of that place. I love to go back there again. Soon.
2. We went to the 5th Comicon with my youngest brother Matt Renz and my niece Fae. That was a lot of fun. The kids specially Faye enjoyed meeting those creators and artist (she met Ian Sta. Maria, Ka'jo, most of BK people, Gerry Alanguilan, Jonas and alot more)…ohh and the dancing ala Michael Jackson - Spiderman. (Seriously!)
3. She (Robin) writes an article for Playboy Magazine (Philippines) for their December Issue. Common guys, get out of your house and buy that issue! (My wifey is a very good writer and she is my editor for the Claw: Re-told)
4. We spend Christmas Eve with my family at Navotas and went to Ayala Alabang to her Auntie Billie on the afternoon of Christmas day. Met there for the first time their Uncle Mayok, who lives at Edmonton, Canada. And also Tita Ada and her pretty and talented daughter (just like wifey here) Katy.
5. Spent New Year with my family and have to leave 5a.m. to be with her (miss her already). And we went to her grand-parent’s house for a New Year get together. It's my second time to be with them on this annual family gathering. It was fun and much relaxed now. I had fun talking to Tita Neyri and Tita Leny. And I love her lola Rosie's Menudo Lengua. Robin loves the shrips.
I bonded with the boys. Drinking session with Tito Leo, Tito Lui and Lolo Romy. That ROCKS! Lolo even opened up two bottles of wine. I love that Autralian wine. Now if only I could remember the name. :P
6. Now, busy with comic pages. Robin, busy with her office work and she's kinda sick lately, most probably it's because of the current weather we're having. But been taking good care of her. :D
Now, I hope this will be the great startup and a fresh start for blogging.
So, see you guys again. Thanks for reading.
Monday, February 23, 2009
First Published work on DAILY INQUIRER
Last Saturday (Feb. 21, 2009) another article for Bayan Knight came out on the Philippine Daily Inquirer. The daily talked to Gilbert Monsanto (creator of TROPA, RAMBOL and have worked for MARVEL & IMAGE COMICS in the U.S. of A) about the group and a little about his life, when and how he started with doing comicbook.
I Love this article so much because it is my first time that my work (did the layout) was published on a newspaper. Thanks to Gilbert for trusting me on this one , and to Christine "Robin" Rivero for the added confidence.
MABUHAY ANG BAYAN KNIGHTS!.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Bayan Knights meets ELMER & the KOMIKEROS!
Every last Sunday of the month, the KOMIKERO of Sir Gerry Alanguilan meets at the Sampalok Lake, San Pablo, Laguna. I haven't really gone that much last year so, when I saw Gerry and the other guys last Komikon (which was held last November 22, at the Bahay ng Alumni, U.P. Diliman), I told them that I would join them to the next meeting. Since Robin is a big fan of Gerry, I told her that I will bring her along to the next Komikero meeting.
"BK in their 1st ever lunch together at FAT LARRY's, San Pablo, Laguna". - - - - >
Photo from Jonas Diego's blog
So the highly anticipated meeting between my loveone and her idol is getting nearer.
SUNDAY; Jan 25, 2008
Sleep over at Robin's house Saturday night. Her mom was so nice that she reminds us a lot of what to bring and even gave us blessing before heading out. I love her mom alot. So we left the house around 7am and we got to the lake at 10:30a.m., and the temperature there was so freakin' cold. Here comes the fun part. While waiting for my fellow Komikero, we saw familiar faces approaching at us.
This is the Next BoyBand of the Philippines...Give this goup a cool NAME.
And to our suprise, it's our co-Bayan Knights members. Mike (Boy Ipis) Ignacio, Rhiver (Manila Man)Quilantang, Juan Paolo (Morion) Mañanita, Aaron (Gwapoman) Felizmenio and his classmates. It was so nice to see them all there. Anyway, after a few minutes of kiddin around the 1st komikero arrived , it wasJohnny (Johnny Balbona) Danganan. My first time to meet (Like I said Jonas, this is not the 1st time) him was at the Komikon two years ago, but somehow he doesn't remember. And the next to arrive was creator of Elmer himself, Gerry Alanguilan. Boy-ohh-boy! If I only have a camera that time, I'd sure wanna take a picture of my fellow BK and my lovely partner in crimes faces. Ang saya-saya! Gerry and Johnny have to leave us for awhile. After a few minutes they we're back again. And Gerry welcomed the new Komikeros. All of them knew bout the initiation or welcoming rites of the komikero (just ask them what they did...to all those who wants to join Komikero - bring extra clothes, towel and soap just to be sure you all go home dry), and after that Gerry asked them for their portfolio. Great reviews and only Neigel shell-out a couple of peso for every minor error Gerry sees on his works. And while Gerry was busy reviewing, Jonas Diego arrived.
JUST A FUNNY CAPTION: This is NOT TRUE.
JUST A FUNNY CAPTION - AGAIN:**Above photos are from Rhiver Quilantang
**Video from Gerry Alanguilan
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