One Mantra Is All That It Takes: Events: Winter Komikon 2013

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Events: Winter Komikon 2013

The much awaited 2nd komikon, which are reffered by some as the Winter Komikon, happened last November 16, 2013 at the Bayanihan Center, Pasig City. This komikon occurs annually during the month of either October or November. It is also the second chance that one could attend yearly if you happened to miss the annual Summer Komikon.

Komikon is currently on its 9th year and is still counting. It was good to see that the event catalog made for this komikon was of the same concept as with the event catalog last Indieket 2013. It holds a blank cover which is free to be played around and made personalized by the attendees by having it sketched or doodled by their favorite artist/s. For the contents of the event catalog, I guess there were some non-essential things on the floor plan page such as the letters under the Komikon Booths that are supposed to be a legend for its location on the map. I guess it could just have been replaced with an asterisk instead.

The other freebies you can get upon entering the lobby is a Bone Sourcebook of Image Comics, an event flier for PICCA (Philippine International Creative Content & Arts) Fest 5 that occurs on MK Tan Hall, and this nice art that I presume was made either by the students or teachers from CIIT (Cosmopoint International Institute of Technology) for advertising.

Clockwise from upper right:
[1] the poster from CIIT, [2] the Bone Comic
[3] the PICCA Fest 5 Event Flier, [4] aonther flier from CIIT.
In the middle is the look of the ticket for this year's Winter Komikon 2013

Every komikon that I attend is memorable and special. The highlight for this event is the free comic, which was produced by the NBDB (National Book Development Board), that is being given to the first 100 in their booth. It is written by Mercedes Cabral and illustrated by Manix Abrera which ended up having Tibok ng Utak Blg. 1. As usual since Manix is involve with this literature, a long line emerged and it took me 2 hours before he got to sign my comic and the event catalog.

The next thing that highlighted this event was my close and personal encounter with Eliza Victoria, writer of Project 17 and A Bottle of Storm Clouds are just some of her works. I failed to find her during Aklatan 2013, wherein she launched Project 17. Thus, I wasn't able to bring the books to have them signed this komikon. Well there are still some goodies that I got from her which included Metro Serye No. 1 in which the illustration was done by Manix.

Eliza Victoria's Unseen Moon on the left and Metro Serye No. 1 on the right.

These are the free calling cards with great designs at the back that I got from Eliza Victoria

Another lucky thing that I was able to get was Batch 72 of Alamat Comics. I was lucky enough to be able to get this from Sir. Gerry Alanguilan's table. It was rather funny as they said that it was just being sold on their table and they were just tasked to be the distributor eventhough the artists and writer are also on the event although they are stationed on a different area.

So far that goes for my day in komikon. The rest of the memories from this komikon would be from the new stash of comics that I had purchased on that day.