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Comics As The Mirror of Life

Comics have been popular in the Philippines since the 1920s, inspired by Americans but building on native literary traditions. The earliest magazines included Liwayway in 1922 and Halakhak in 1946. Famous creators included Mars Ravelo, Pablo Gomez, and Tony Velasquez. Throughout the 1950s-70s, comics became widely read as affordable entertainment. They provided symbolic representations of social issues and heroes defending ordinary people. Comics attracted readers through accessible stories that mirrored real life and allowed escape from reality.

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Comics As The Mirror of Life

Comics have been popular in the Philippines since the 1920s, inspired by Americans but building on native literary traditions. The earliest magazines included Liwayway in 1922 and Halakhak in 1946. Famous creators included Mars Ravelo, Pablo Gomez, and Tony Velasquez. Throughout the 1950s-70s, comics became widely read as affordable entertainment. They provided symbolic representations of social issues and heroes defending ordinary people. Comics attracted readers through accessible stories that mirrored real life and allowed escape from reality.

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Comics as the Mirror of

Life
History
Comics in the Philippines are widespread and
popular throughout the country from the 1920s to
the present and it was inspired by the Americans
during the early 20th century.

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Even before the Americans came in
1898 Filipinos have native literature like
“awit at korido, aklat na relihiyoso at
pasyon” that are made for entertainment
that shows temper and sensibility.

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Liwayway
● Tagalog word meaning "dawn" is
the first and the oldest Tagalog
magazine in the Philippines since
1922.
● The publisher of Liwayway, Don
Ramon Roces (The Godfather of
Philippine Traditional Komiks)
and his family are known to run
the entire comics industry in the
country before.
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“Kenkoy” “Kulafu” “Halakhak”
The first character By Francisco The first regularly
Reyes and published comics magazine
been created and was in the Philippines. By
introduced by Tony Pedrito Reyes Filipino illustrator Isaac
Velasquez in 1929. on July 7, 1933 Tolentino and Filipino
lawyer Jaime Lucas on
November 15, 1946. 5
Mars Ravelo Pablo Gomez
Creator of the iconic character He wrote such memorable
Darna in Pilipino Komiks May 27, works such as “Inday Bote”,
1950. Aside from Darna and other “Machete”, “Kapag Puno na
superheroes such as Captain and Salop”, and “Bunsong
Barbell and Lastikman, Ravelo Kerubin.” Most of his works
would also create Maruja and
were translated into film and
Dyesabel, – fantasy romance,
Roberta- social drama and
television.
Bondying- humor. 6
Throughout the 1950s
and the next three decades, the
comics would become “the literature of the
masses” as thousands of comics were sold in
sidewalks and sari-sari stores throughout the
country. A number of great creators would produce
sterling work that would influence Philippine
popular culture for years to come.
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Literary traditions
Examples Even before the characters in
the comics have always been
based on the actual lives of the
Filipinos. The situations or
events being described is a
mirror of the people's customs
and beliefs.

Kenko Kalabog at Basyo


y Tisoy
As comics evolved through the decades, it idealized
super heroes that possess extraordinary ability than a
normal man and other fictional characters. Although the
names of the characters changed, and new situations in
new settings were depicted due to western influence, the
fundamental qualities of the folklore that the common
people have before shaped the comics that we knew
now. Comics became a powerful institution in Filipino
life since it helped in the means of spreading the
national language.
Art in the Kingdom of Comics
The characters from the comics gained the interest of the Filipino
people because it constituted a pantheon of fictional heroes and other
fictional characters that have a deep sympathy for the plight of the
powerless. It resembles the sight of the government and its various
institutions that remained helpless and unable to extend aid to those
most in need of help like farmers terrorized by greedy landlords, a
community frightened by goons and hoodlums, the land threatened by
plagues and famines, indios victimized by Spaniards. The writers
produce texts that were eloquent displacements of the real world,
where powerful forces were preying on helpless and terrified
communities.
Causes of Attraction
Comics is widely popular back then because for
early Filipinos it’s a medium to escape reality, they
experience other way of life other than their own.
Anyone can have access to it and it's one sources of
fun and entertainment back in the days. Animated
or movie adaptations are also done to some popular
comics that became a big hit for the Filipinos.
Group 3
Nash Rimpa
Carmel Vargas
Jan Marinella Cazenas
Jesa Jaudines
Jessie Aquillo
Loren Joy Moloua
Rumela Davo
Thank You!

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