Dr. Killpatient Pharmaceuticals

Inspired from this particular work by René Gruau: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=698108253543023&set=oa.655737347805909&type=3&theater

I was at Komikon 2016 last Saturday and found @trisketched (whom I currently go to the same school as) offering to do commissions! I didn’t come prepared with references though! So I had the next best thing: my new sketchbook which I hardly take out of my bag (I probably wouldn’t have brought it if I put it out the other day) and which has way way less character sketches. All I had were the studies of Fr. Horacio Luis V. de la Costa (a legendary historian Jesuit from my country) which I worked on during my Holy Week retreat in Ateneo de Manila University, and the good father’s been haunting me (in a good way) lately. I asked @trisketched to add whisky and smokes ‘cause the good father was quite known for his chain smoking and drinking binges. Anyway, thanks a-plenty Tristan for the super kewl job you did! *kowtows*

I did this little take on Southeast Asia after seeing the Earth’s map from It Could’ve Been Great. Now I know this may not be super accurate since places in Southeast Asia (particularly my country) get rendered in oversimplified silhouettes, but I found this interesting to do anyway.

I bumped into this on TvTropes and can’t find the exact source, but I made a little addition to the Philippines. My island’s apparently missing in the Steven Universe world.

My Gravity Falls-related hauls from Fine Arts Week in UP Diliman!

A lot of crap happened last year. Friends dying, an uncle being gone on Christmas Day, being someone’s backup friend and realizing it (the little gremlin’s gone on Tumblr fortunately, and I unfriended her on Facebook), it’s been one heck of a ride. I finally got to update my OS, so Tumblr’s been swell right now. Just need to pick up the pieces. I’ve been really inactive here and in my creative pursuits. It’s time to turn a new leaf now!

Anyway, I still have your Skype! Maybe I could talk to you from there if ever.

My Californian history professor is running this donation drive on behalf of a boy here in my country with a heart condition. Toto, the young lad, is in dire need of a heart surgery which would surely be life-saving. If you’re willing, please do donate! Or at the very least, please reblog this and spread the word! Have a <3, save a <3!

And let’s see... My favorite history professor and his family are certified Bay Area folks, my favorite travel blogger (and friend) is from San Francisco, an aunt of mine & her family along with my grandma live in Los Angeles, and a dear friend of mine who happens to be the nephew of an acclaimed writer from my country stays in Sacramento. So I guess I’ve got a reason to celebrate this day then!

Unsigned, Aguinaldo’s Department Store ad, The Manila Times, 11 June 1963 Newsprint courtesy of the Rosendo Mejica Collection

I haven’t been active on tumblr latey ‘cause of the heavy memory usage here in my laptop’s case. The poor thing needs some air now that its disc space is  suffocatingly low. Not only that, it uses an outdated Mac OS X 10.6.8. I’m still self-fundraising for a new external hard drive to back up my stuff. Anyhooty, to anyone (who cares), I’ll now be uploading vintage Filipiniana (AKA stuff from my country before the mid-1970s at least). Those may be images I picked up somewhere like the Facebook group Manila Nostalgia (credit will be given of course) or heck photos of my private collection (which is still shamefully measly). More importantly, I’ll be putting up photos of things from the place I volunteer at: a heritage house with the biggest darndest collection of old magazines! The Rosendo Mejica Collection. You’ll be seeing stuff hardly accessible on the Internet like old covers of Philippines Free Press magazines and local ads from yesteryear. Other than that, I’d like to give a spotlight to vintage Philippine illustration, so there’ll also be old cartoon strips like Mang Ambo (English: Mr. Ambo) or illustrated commercials of local brands like PureFoods. But just to give some distinction, I’ll put up specific tags for such. What I really expect is for someone to come out of the woodworks and give a shout out on who the illustrator might be, because many of these works, sadly, are unsigned. So here’s my first upload of a Philippine illustration: an ad of Tancho, a brand of Japanese pomade my grandfather used to use, dated from the June 11, 1970 issue of The Sunday Times.