Sundays at my lola’s house was something my siblings, cousins and I looked forward to growing up. The get-together would turn to a solemn ritual with each individuals finding their own corner in the small library in this Paranaque home reading Liwayway and Aliwan comics.
The smell of dried ink on my fingers is something that I am very familiar to because of this experience. Sadly these moments are long gone. We have all grown to take interest in other things, consume other forms of entertainment.
As part the transition generation, we have witnessed the fall of Filipino “komiks”. But all is not lost.
In the U.S., comics have not completely expired although the industry as a whole has diversified. The mainstream producers ventured in to licensing and merchandising for Hollywood reproduction. Independent or alternative comics, on the other hand, enjoyed good company with niche consumers.
The same goes in the Philippines. Comic stories and characters have been licensed to big TV networks, ostensibly resurrecting this form of entertainment (at least only in element).
Then there are the innovators riding the waves of new media, one of which is webkomiks.com, a website that has established the filipino komiks industry in cyberspace–aptly dubbed e-komiks.
The onslaught of electronic materials like e-books, e-catalogues, e-mails, even e-menu, made us felt that it is time for the e-komiks to claim its position as well. E-komiks thru its website www.webkomiks.com will bring forth the new Superstars in illustrative storytelling. We have a pool of seasoned illustrators and writers who wish to entertain you in this medium. It is of our best hope that you will continue visiting our website and add us to your Favorites and of course, purchase some if not all of the e-komiks on our e-stand in the future.
This website is dedicated to all filipinos around the world who wishes to rally behind its homegrown talents and to those avid komiks readers from local newsstands during the heyday of the pop culture. Tagalog or Pilipino is the language used herein which sometimes is thinged with the common spoken taglish (tagalog + english) nowadays.
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