Links to Filipino-made speculative works online, some announcements
1. Charles Tan has been compiling a list of speculative works written by Filipinos and published in the international market in 2007 and 2008. He also posts links to the full texts of some earlier speculative fiction stories posted in Literatura.
2. The Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler compiled by Charles Tan and Mia Tijam has been reviewed at Boing Boing. The group blog is having some server problems, so if you can’t view the page now, try again later.
3. Dean Alfar, co-editor and publisher of the annual Philippine Speculative Fiction anthology, says that the publication and launch of PSF4 has been moved to February 2009.
4. In honor of the Komikon – the 4th Philippine Komiks Convention which takes place today, at the UP Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman, Quezon City – I plug two comics by authors of Filipino heritage:
a) No Formula: Stories from the Chemistry Set
Among the stories are short works by Andrew Drilon, whose short fiction has been published in the Philippine Speculative Fiction anthologies, and who also made the cover for the Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler.
For the Table of Contents and purchase information, see Andrew Drilon’s Livejournal. Previews of the comics in the collecton may be found at The Chemistry Set.
This clever science fiction story is also a social commentary by Filipino artist Elan Rodger Trinidad. Read the whole piece at Theory of Everything Comics, and don’t forget to check out Elan Rodger’s afterword.
Hmmm. I keep finding “Speak No Evil” on Filipino blogs. I’m not sure if its just because:
1) I mention that I’m Filipino in the afterward
2) I hit on an immigration experience that’s closer to the Filipino experience rather than the Mexican experience
3) A single mouth was singing “Dahil Sa’Yo” while everyone else was singing “Besame Mucho” (This scene was actually a metaphor for Pacquiao vs. De La Hoya… you figure out the metaphor because I just created the previous sentence right now.)
4) all of the above.
Hi Elan. It’s probably all of the above, although I can’t say for sure if it’s closer to the Filipino experience than to the Mexican experience. Speaking for myself, I mentioned it because it was written by a Filipino, and I found it awesome as a social commentary presented as science fiction :)
That “Dahil Sa ‘Yo” panel was a clever touch, by the way!
well thanks for posting a link to my site, thanks for your appreciation of my work and thanks for upping my google search result number.
Speak No Evil has been nominated for an Eisner Comic Book Industry Award for Best Digital Comic.
To my knowledge, me and Lan Medina (Fables) are the only Filipinos to have been nominated for an Eisner (and he won his).