SUBSCRIBEThe komiks of my childhood
Komiks has always been part of childhood. I can say that it has enriched my Tagalog vocabulary much especially that I’m a Cebuano. I remember back in the old house of my grandparents where we used to live (we moved to our own house in 1986 but just beside the old one) and the maids always have these copies lying around.
I still vividly remember ALIWAN, a popular komiks that I usually lay my hands on not for the romantic stories but to read Zuma, the green and bald man with two snakes over his neck wearing nothing but an Igorot inspired thong that was a hit way back then. Just think of our excitement when that story was produced into a movie and we went to see it in one of the theaters in downtown Colon St.
It was also a distant relative who introduced me to Funny Komiks (never an Archie/Jughead/Mad or foreign comics fan though), another publication that I’ve been reading back then. I already forgot most of the stories but never the Noon - Ngayon section that always elicited laughter. Those were the days when I used to stop at every newstand to check if they have new copies and ask my mother to buy one for me or just to know if they carry my favorite komiks.
With the new Carlo J Caparas komiks release of Super Funny Komiks, I sure will try to read it.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:13PM
naku bai, i also grew up on komiks. i kinda miss them now kasi with the onslaught of other reading materials (or the waning of reading among the youth), nawala na yung mga komiks, like the ones published by atlas publication (like yung mga wakasan, etc.). good for carlo j. caparas to keep the komiks tradition alive. i must admit, reading komiks paved the way for my eventual love for reading later on.