Grantbridge Street & other misadventures: Alex Nino.

Thursday, 15 April 2010

And here's the last of the Satan's Tears posts. Honestly: check out that fourth picture down - now, that is how you draw a dude with a sword!!!

Anonymous said...: was Acid available in the Phillipines in the mid 70's then ?

Gnostic.; 16 April 2010 13:41
joe bloke said...: probably. mushrooms? definately.; 16 April 2010 16:17
Anonymous said...: Heh heh heh heh....

On the point of the Filipine artists, I recently got that new DC Showcase volume, and there's some cracking stuff there from Alcala and Nino, and not forgetting Yandoc ( AKA Rubeny I think ) , who is equally brilliant.

Gnostic.; 17 April 2010 01:47
Anonymous said...: On the subject of Ruben( Rubeny ) Yandoc, I found the following Philipine webpage --

http://pilipinokomiks.blogspot.com/2008/03/early-ruben-yandoc-work-1951.html

One of the bloggers commenting makes a good point, that at times, all the Phillipino artists' styles looked quite similar, but then they developed their own distinct styles, which I think is true.

Rubeny for his part perfectly depicts/lambasts/critiques a real kind of misanthropic,vindictive spiteful kind of character type in his work.

Gnostic.; 17 April 2010 04:40