Flipside Podcast Episode 16: Aesthetics in Comics

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For our latest podcast, we talk with the following comic creators about their personal aesthetics when it comes to comics and their process when it comes to their art:

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Evolution of a Book Cover – A Bottle of Stormclouds

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Our resident graphic artist Trizha is currently working on the book cover for Eliza Victoria’s A Bottle of Stormclouds. She’s experimenting with various method, including etching the cover, so what you see below may not be used for the final cover, but here’s what her process is like:

Draft:

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The Process:

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Flipside Podcast Episode 15: Komiks, Moar Komiks!

Last April 19, 2013, guests Honey de Peralta, Trizha Ko, and Adam David had a post-Komikon discussion about comics.

Topics include:

  • New Adult
  • Robert Maguson’s Kuting Magiting and Macoy’s Ang Maskot
  • Hope Larson & Tintin Pantoja’s Who is AC?
  • Women in Philippine comics

|MP3| 50 MB

Notes:

Adam David’s review of 12 and Ang Maskot
Page discussed from Kuting Magiting

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Pages from Trizha Ko’s comic Fraulein:

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Evolution of a Book Cover Part 2

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We recently released several books from the Philippine public domain and we wanted to share how our graphic designers designed the covers.

Here are the designs for two of our covers:

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Evolution of a Book Cover Part 1

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We recently released several books from the Philippine public domain and we wanted to share how our graphic designers designed the covers.

Here’s the evolution for one of them:

Initial Sketch

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The Details:

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Typography:

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Trese Side-by-Side Comparison

We released the ebook editions of Trese last year and here’s a glimpse of the redrawn art Kajo Baldisimo did for the ebooks (left one old, right one new):

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You can purchase the books at the following stores:

Trese 1: At the Intersection of Balete and 13th Street |Amazon|Flipreads|iTunes|Kobo|

Trese 2: Rules of the Race |Amazon|Flipreads|iTunes|Kobo|

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Flipside Podcast Episode 14: Comics vs Graphic Novels

In our latest podcast recorded last March, we discuss the article “The death of the ‘graphic novel’”. Joining us in this huge panel are:

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