This blog brings back the nostalgic moment of Philippine’s Golden Age Comics. Looking back at the rich history of the Filipino comics tradition, this blog contains complete segment of “Unang Labas”.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Lahing Kayumanggi
Lahing Kayumanggi by Trinidad A. Alvarez Illustrated by Rody V. Arubang Aksiyon Komiks Issue No.1 September 22 1962
Steve, Another Coching-influenced artist. The trouble with many artists influenced by both Coching and Redondo, is that they copy frame-by-frame such as this one, everything is copied from Coching illustrations including the cover art. What's good about illustrators like Emil Rodriguez, Antonio Ocampo, Floro Dery and Alex Nino, is that, while they're definitely Coching or Redondo-influenced, they can create, compose and make their own frames without resorting to copying, thus developing their own style. All four aforementioned artists, of course went on to become excellent illustrators with their own unique styles (except for Ocampo who passed away, his style though was already at par with what Redondo was doing at the same time and way ahead of another Redondo-influenced artist, Tony Caravana) Rod
Steve,
ReplyDeleteAnother Coching-influenced artist. The trouble with many artists influenced by both Coching and Redondo, is that they copy frame-by-frame such as this one, everything is copied from Coching illustrations including the cover art. What's good about illustrators like Emil Rodriguez, Antonio Ocampo, Floro Dery and Alex Nino, is that, while they're definitely Coching or Redondo-influenced, they can create, compose and make their own frames without resorting to copying, thus developing their own style. All four aforementioned artists, of course went on to become excellent illustrators with their own unique styles (except for Ocampo who passed away, his style though was already at par with what Redondo was doing at the same time and way ahead of another Redondo-influenced artist, Tony Caravana)
Rod