First Comic Convention in Baguio City

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Presents:
Comic Convention in Baguio City on July 16,2011

Hi guys!
Please join us in celebrating the wonderful world of comics here in the beautiful City of Pines! It was a long time coming and now it's happening for the first time in the city.

We have a few comicbook personalities who had expressed interest in coming to the event such as Gerry Alanguilan (Wasted, Elmer, Wetworks, X-Men, Superman: Birthright, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, etc, Freely Abrigo (Kulas, Kapitan Tog), DANNY ACUÑA (Orbot ‘D Robot, Buchicoy, Chutay, Satania, etc.), Manix Abrera (Kikomachine comics, Philippine Daily Inquirer), A bunch of Comicbook Veterans, etc.!

Venue: Baguio City National High School Auditorium
Time: 9:00 am - 8:00 pm July 16, 2011
Entrance Fee: 100 Php

People and Events

Personalities include Gerry Alanguilan (?), Danny Acuna, Manix Abrera, Freely Abrigo, Rommel Estanislao, Orvy Jundis (?), Frank Cimatu, Gaby Keith, Pigeon Lobien, Big Fat Ben, The Curfew, Tony de Zuniga (?) Comicbook veterans both local and international, Sketchpad Studios, Carlo Pagulayan(?), Baguio Arts Guild (?) and other international Filipino artists. Personalities and groups followed by the "question mark" are people who had expressed interest to come but cannot commit or had been rumored by their closest friends to come but still needs confirmation.

Drawing Contests:
1. Live model sketching 2. Original Character Design 3. One page comic illustration 4. Comic strip drawing 5. Editorial cartoon drawing

Comic books! Lots of comic books both local and international.

Indie comics. Meet and greet up and coming comicbook superstars at the grassroots level!

Book Signing. Bring or buy your favorite artists comics and get one of your most memorable handshakes!

Workshops and lectures. Learn to sketch, draw comics and cartoons from professional artists!

Hero TV Comics creation Winner

I won!
I had the chance to win several awards and medals before but it's my first time to get some sort of trophy (I call it "THORpy") for an art contest!
The contest ran the course of 2 months where our page entries got exposed on the internet for weekly votes by readers. I got a weekly vote that won't even reach 10 even if I voted and that really drained the inspiration out of this starving artist week after week- specially when looking at the multitude of voters for the leading entries. In the end my entry entitled "Big Fat Ben" made me climb the stage for "Best Art" and "Overall Winner!" So the "I Am Hero Comics creation contest" by HERO TV ended the Metrocomicon 2011 with me having the biggest smile!
So here I am sitting with my THORpy! I also won 17,860 pesos ($380) of Gift certificates that I can't use here in Baguio; 2 t-shirts that don't fit me; and a pillow that's too small for any practical use! I'm not complaining. I can use the bag, and the TV interview and exposure would certainly give me a new, much improved resume!
My mom wasn't impressed with the prizes specially as she spent for all my materials and my fare going to Manila for the event. "Think about it if the contestant from Davao won, he'd be crying over the useless prizes!" is what she said. Well... I got to go look for a job now.