After Many Years of Silence

As one can expect, much has happened to me between this post and the last one - which my cat typed in 2007:

I've made lots of mistakes, and have had my share of successful moments.

I have written and illustrated a few more books (and some comics) for the Philippine market. Those were fun.

On the more dramatic side of things, I closed a 40+ year old family business and from the ashes of that, I helped our good and loyal employees form a cooperative. That was very stressful, but more important - it felt like the right thing to do.

Then at the start of 2010, I became a father. At the end of the same year, I lost my father. Both events were life-shaking - but in very different ways. Both are constant reminders, however, that whatever past life I have been trying so desperately to hold on to truly belongs in the past.

Which brings me to today. I have given some thought to starting up this blog again without the assistance of my cat who, as I should have expected, left it abandoned for over three years. I can only hope to do a better job. My cat would not bet good money on it. Neither should you. I'm hopeful, but let's just see how things go, okay?

The picture above is me at the 2011 Philippine comic convention. I stayed at the Polyhedron Comics table where we sold stuff - some of which included my work. I wrote and illustrated an all-ages silent comic called "Poso Maximo" appearing in the comic anthology entitled "Triple Punch Komiks". We also sold copies of my latest children's book "Bullysaurus Rex" published by Hiyas books. My latest comic work was a four page job drawn from a script by good friend and University of the Philippines professor Emil Flores. The title of the piece is "Colloquy" and it appears in the comic anthology "CADRE classified".

If you want to see some of my work, please visit my page on deviantart.com