Feedbacks on Comic Books

from ARSENIO:

... I had these ( the comic books ) until I grew up to be a teenager. My mom kept it in our wood case ( baul) together with my dad's old FREE PRESS magazines that were published before the Martial Law. That's my mom's hobby I think, she loves to collect magazines and paperbacks. But all of those has been gone with the wind LITERALLY! Remember the typhoon Kading in early 1970? Yeah, it soaked them with H20!!

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Gee, Kading must have turned them back to pulp! "From pulp thou art to pulp thou returnest.." Sad! But it is not as sad as using them for kindling wood or reading them while waiting for the shit to come out and when it is out, one used them as toilet paper!

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from ANNIE,

I was just trying to e-mail you when your e-mail popped  out on my screen.Yeah,these are the kinds our patrons young and old alike, love to check out nowadays .Hardback, paperback or comics look alike.Garfield and other cartoon characters are nothing  compared to those kind when circulation counts.Those kind of graphic stories never go out of fashion, and I guess it will pass from one generation to the next.

    I heard this grandpa reading to his grandkid and by the time he finished reading,he came to me and said: I feel like a  kid again reading Superman comic books.They were glossy,colored and thin and they were so delicate.

   I may have to start reading those once I will finish my  fiction books I had on my desk and on my night desk."Aliwan" is the name  of the game and Aliwan was the famous best selling komik books we had back in our town.

 

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Back in our days, we had the Liwayway, Bannawag, Amihan, Tala and for the horny readers, there was this TIK TIK  magazine. The covers were always drawings of half clad women who are about to be raped by leering, mustached guys!Talk about the commom adage in Mass Communication: SEX SELLS and how! Filipino publishers excel in selling just anything..