Are you a pushover parent? Have you ever given in when you shouldn’t have? Do your kids have you wrapped around their cute, chubby fingers? Putting your foot down should not mean having to step on anyone’s toes. This workshop, using tried and tested techniques from the world of business, equips parents like you with the tools to turn arguments into agreements. These techniques serve to empower parents and help to encourage dialogue between parents and children, and help foster a more harmonious family dynamic.
March 27, 2010 Saturday 430-730pm
The Forum, Fully Booked High Street
Workshop Fee is Php1500/pax
For reservation details, email brainfoodph@gmail.com or contact 0916-7396237.
Petty Pets, purveyors of pets cute and cuddly, have recently started offering official Petty Pets merchandise at their store in SM Megamall. Here’s the initial wave of button pins that I designed for them:
With more to come soon, but oh! oh! Stocks are limited so get yours not tomorrow, not next week, but now, now, now!
Did you miss our stART with mio exhibit at Gallery7?
Well then, you can see the works on exhibit at Pino Resto Bar, at 122 Maginhawa, Teachers Village, Quezon City. Five-year old Mio Mendiola engages in art collaborations with Alessa Libongco, JP Cuison, CJ de Silva, Nolan Fabular, Team Manila, Electrolychee, Robert Alejandro, 27+20, yours truly, and more!
Open Daily for Lunch and Dinner! For reservations, contact 441-1773 or email PinoRestoBar@yahoo.com.
I’ve recently been doing a number of shirt designs for various places, among them new shirt brand Spiffy, which has its online home over at Spiffy.ph. Here are the first three shirt designs I made for them, including the first-ever Bakemono High shirt, based on the comic strip series I write and draw for K-Zone Magazine.
There’s a ton of other spiffy shirts over at Spiffy, so why not give their site a look-see?
Hello friends,
I need your help, each and every one of you.
The Reader’s digest version is this: my girlfriend Lorra has been the victim of mean-spirited anonymous people who’ve not only set up a fake blog, but have since then tried hacking into her email accounts as well.
The past few days, we’ve tried reporting the fake blog to Wordpress in the hopes of having it shut down, but they’ve so far chosen not to even acknowledge our messages.
And so, in an attempt at positive resistance, we’re trying instead to reaffirm Lorra’s true presence online and discourage the trollers. We ask each of you to please, please, if you could, to link to Lorra’s true websites below:
http://lorraelenaangbuete.wordpress.com
http://lorraelena.tumblr.com
http://juzagirl.deviantart.com
Through your blogs, Facebook accounts, etc. We hope that this helps move her real sites up in popularity, relegating the fake blog to the bowels of search engine results. At the least, it’s a demonstration of our love, respect and support for Lorra.
If you it’s not too much to ask, we also hope you could help spread the word about this, and ask your friends to check out Lorra’s sites as well. They’re interesting in their own right (her deviantArt account, especially, is a nice showcase of her artwork). It would mean a lot.
Thank you so much,
Elbert
Set for release on Valentines Day is a new book I illustrated, “The Love of My Buhay,” published by A&S Books. It’s been in the works since summer of last year, and I’m excited and relieved that it’s finally coming out. Lorra helped out a lot with the art on this, and it makes me giddy just thinking about it, the two of us working on a book like this. Hee hee. It feels a lot like this:
Update: The book will be available at Mary Grace Serendra and Alabang branches for a limited engagement – until February 28, 2010 only. Here’s the promotional poster for it:
Renaissance is the comics event that will bring together the best and brightest comic book talents of the country.
Efren Sapalaran is my next comic book project.
Both will happen in February.
Game!
“Lola: A Ghost Story” is now out in comic stores, and if you’re still on the fence about whether to buy a copy or not, perhaps some of the reviews will help convince you to buy a copy for yourself, and another for a loved one.
Comic Impact calls Lola “the sort of book that never gets old after how ever many reads.” Of my artwork, the reviewer writes, “What makes it so scary and surprising, is that the whole book is usually drawn in a lovely, romantic style where everything looks joyous and at ease…but then when you come across a monster it really catches you off guard.”
OneMetal gives the book a 3.5 out of 5 – “good stuff, definitely worth a look.”
Comic Book Resources has a review of the book as well, drawing parallels between my work and artist Paul Smith, which just made me absolutely giddy.
“Torres and Or’s tale is the sort of quiet horror story that moves along simply, lulling you into false security, before twisting quickly in another direction right at the end,” says the first review of Lola: A Ghost Story from the School Library Journal.
Previews of the first 17 pages are also available online, in places like Comic Book Resources, Broken Frontier, and Major Spoilers.
It’s also been cited as one of the books to watch in 2010, by the Sunday Daily Inquirer, where it’s described as “a uniquely Filipino title.”
Excitement!
Drawings made over the holidays. Lorra went home to spend the holidays with her family, so the impetus for these was simply me having a case of too much missing her.
Hope you had safe, great holidays, everyone! And here’s to a rip-roaring 2010!
