I finally bought a copy of "Essential Guide to World Comics" after being tipped by my friend Reno Maniquis that it is already available in Powerbooks.

I think this book is very important since it is the first book to examine in relative detail the comparative comics culture of the different countries of the world.

Finally, here's a gallery of some of the earliest komiks covers of the great Francisco V. Coching from my collection. For your viewing pleasure.

Recently, a group of students visited my house to interview me for their thesis regarding Philippine Komiks. I think this has been the fifth time I was interviewed by students to help them in their thesis on komiks.

I have never met the great cartoonist Jose Zabala-Santos in person. Everything I knew about him I learned from reading articles written about him, and my interviews of his family, friends, and close students, including the famous artists Mauro Malang and Nonoy Marcelo.

Vintage Philippine literary and movie magazines are rich references for identifying komiks serials that had been made into the movies.

I am very fortunate to acquire a good number of these old magazines from the 1920s to the 1950s, a rich minefield of information about our rich comics and movie heritage. Reading these vintage magazines provides me with the feeling of travelling through a Time Machine wherin I could get a glimpse of the olden days even decades before I was born.