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pinoy komix biz: September 2005

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A candid and personal examination of the Philippine comics scene from a social, cultural, economic and business point of view. Friday, September 30, 2005. Mining, Atlas Komiks, and a few highly recommended blog sites. Which is why Alfredo right now is busy trying to raise capital and obtain new partners in order to prop up Atlas Consolidated. What does this have to do with the Philippine comics scene, you ask? Another site of worthy note is. And then there's Chrissy Beltran's. Chrissy is a marketing (?

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pinoy komix biz: January 2006

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A candid and personal examination of the Philippine comics scene from a social, cultural, economic and business point of view. Thursday, January 26, 2006. Third Wave Media, the Knowledge Economy, Inadvertent Content and Alan Moore. The commercial viability and influence of the print medium (i.e. newspapers, magazines, books, and comics) have been diminishing gradually over the years due in part to the introduction of new, accessible, and radical technology otherwise known as "third wave" media. Arriving ...

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pinoy komix biz: December 2005

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A candid and personal examination of the Philippine comics scene from a social, cultural, economic and business point of view. Monday, December 12, 2005. The arrogance of mainstream U.S. Comics. This is not the first time I've been getting this. A few months ago on the History Channel, there was a feature on American Superheroes and the same thing was said: Americans invented the comic book. But I could not, for the life of me, accept the fact that Americans INVENTED the comic book as an "art form". ...

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pinoy komix biz: July 2005

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A candid and personal examination of the Philippine comics scene from a social, cultural, economic and business point of view. Sunday, July 31, 2005. Comics for the elite: Today's target market. In a readership survey conducted by the now defunct APEPCOM (a.k.a. the Association of Publishers and Editors of Philippine Comics Magazines), the Philippine version of the U.S.' Comics Code Authority, it was found that the great bulk of. The same study further described the average. Publishing monopoly of Don Ra...

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pinoy komix biz: November 2005

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A candid and personal examination of the Philippine comics scene from a social, cultural, economic and business point of view. Friday, November 25, 2005. The Japanese Manga Industry Revisited. Just how big is the Japanese comics (or. An authoritative answer is given to us in this 1998 online article by Go Tchiei:. Source: A History of Manga: The Rise of Japanese Manga by Go Tchiei. Publications comprise 20 to 27% percent of Japan's total publishing industry. This percentage is still a huge number. For on...

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pinoy komix biz: August 2005

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A candid and personal examination of the Philippine comics scene from a social, cultural, economic and business point of view. Wednesday, August 31, 2005. The rise of the U.S. Graphic Novel, the Age Wave, and the Filipino Youth Market. THE AGE WAVE INFLUENCE IN COMICS PUBLISHING POLICY. Since 1975, there has been a perceptively gradual and steady increase in the number of older people than young people in most developed countries of the world such as those mentioned above. WHAT CAUSES THE AGE WAVE. The a...

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pinoy komix biz: October 2006

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A candid and personal examination of the Philippine comics scene from a social, cultural, economic and business point of view. Sunday, October 29, 2006. IS THE SURVEY KILLING YOU YET? Well its been eight months now since February, 2006, and so far, those guys at A.C. Nielsen seem to be on the mark. Which.oh, wait a minute. What's that you say? Don't put too much faith in surveys? Surveys can kill you? The year isn't over yet? You mean you want to wait till December? December, then. :). Rizal in fact, so ...

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pinoy komix biz: October 2005

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A candid and personal examination of the Philippine comics scene from a social, cultural, economic and business point of view. Sunday, October 30, 2005. The Lydia "Cookie" R. Guerrero Interview. Dona Elena had three children: Xavier. Wahoo) , Lydia (. Cookie), and Alfredo (. Lydia "Cookie" Guerrero, grandaughter of Don Ramon, was fortunately interviewed on March 7, 2001 by Sassy Mae C. Sumulong. The full transcript of the interview is made available online by Sassy Mae. (VIDE:. Its newsprint but as the y...

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pinoy komix biz: June 2006

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A candid and personal examination of the Philippine comics scene from a social, cultural, economic and business point of view. Tuesday, June 27, 2006. New Technology did not kill the Filipino Comics Industry. However, the introduction of these ICTs and consequently of media demassification has been observed to be more pronounced in rich, developed countries, or confined in urban cities of poor "developing" countries. This was the finding in the latest 2006 international survey report by the World Ban...