Komiket Ortigas | Event Highlights

The event landscape has changed over the past two years, and with the Philippines this is the only time things are going back to ‘normal.’ However you interpret it the changes will be significant and subtle, but with things that continue to happen globally there are few are soldiering on to continue what everyone has miss out. Over the weekend Komiket Ortigas was one of the few events that happened over the course of its three days, and the success was greater than the sum of its parts. It’s like seeing a longtime friend you have not made face-to-face contact in a very long time.

Komiket 2019 | Wild Festival of Fun

10.14.2019 – When you talk about local comicons there’s that thought of grand festivities that featured famous personalities based from films or known artists that break the mold of the usual proverbial status quo. And then there are local cons that promote the grassroots that fuel original creativity. But there is also an event call Komiket that has been around for the last five years not only promote Filipino Komiks, but drives the creativity beyond that with other things like pins, stickers, key chains, and prints to name of the stuff you see in this event that has become the backbone of what makes it popular with the youth.

Mythology Class 20th Anniversary at Komiket 2019!

09.30.2019 – The fourth quarter of 2019 is pushing for more surprises and interesting things with regard to Filipino Comics. Ahead of the upcoming Komiket 2019 is the re-release of Arnold Arre’s the Mythology Class that won the 2000 National Book Award, which will give you a tease to the upcoming sequel. This is also the 20th Anniversary year of the original series that put the writer/artist on the map and changed the way Filipino Komiks was produced and inspired a generation of authors that made their own stories about the rich mythology of the Filipino Folklore that also reflects the country’s culture.