KOMIKON 2011 - The 7th Philippine Annual Komiks Convention

The 7th Philippine Annual Komiks Convention November 19, 2011
10am to 7pm
Bayanihan Center, Unilab Compound, Pasig City

KOMIKON 2011 TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN COMIC ODYSSEY Robinson's Galleria and Robinson's Manila and in Eastwood. P100. Bili na!!!!

Bayan Knights: BOOK of ORIGINS

With Komikon 2011 just somewhere around the corner, our heroes come to save the day!

Check out our latest offering for this event:

BAYAN KNIGHTS: BOOK of ORIGINS

Available soon so see you at the Kon! :)

Komikon Awards 2011

The Third Komikon Readers' Choice Awards is now accepting nominations for the following categories:

A. BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST
B. BEST COMIC: Graphic Novel /Anthology
C. BEST COMIC: Serialized
D. BEST COMIC: Comic Strip Compilation
E. BEST COMIC CREATOR (s)
F. BEST COVER
G. BEST CARTOONIST
H. GRASSROOT AWARD
I. BEST WEBCOMIC
J. KOMIKS CHARACTER OF THE YEAR
K. BEST COMICS SCENE
L. COMICS AID AWARD

Click here to find the nomination sheet:
NOMINATION LINK
(Nomination period is from July 1 to July 15, 2011 only)

Summer Komikon 2011

3rd Summer Komikon 2011:

Bayanihan: Komiks Moving Onward

April 16, 2011 (10am to 7pm)
Bayanihan Center, Pasig City
Entrance Fee: to be announced

Visit their Facebook event page at:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145083358885389

Here's the map:

Check Out Our New Releases For Komikon

Comic geeks everywhere, don't dare miss the upcoming Komikon 2010!

This happens November 13, 2010 at the Starmall Tradehall, Starmall Edsa-Mandaluyong from 10am to 7pm. So see you there!

And oh! We have a bunch of new comic book releases from our team! Check 'em all out below:

Bayan Knights #5 by Gilbert Monsanto and the BK Team

MASO #1 by Ramil Ibay

Talim #1 by Omi Remalante Jr. and Rhiver Quilantang

Landas Tungong Digmaan
Written by Jon Zamar
Arts by JM Valenzuela, Judd Abinuman, Armand Roy Canlas and Gabe Dela Cruz

Read Comics In Public Day

Eli (of WIPcomics) reads Bayan Knights #1 and other Pinoy comics for the 1st International Read Comics In Public Day.

Papercraft by Teddy Pavon, Photo by Hub Pacheco

Click this link to check out the rest of his entry:
http://wipcomics.weebly.com/1/post/2010/08/eli-for-the-1st-international-read-comics-in-public-day.html

BK Cosplayer wins at the MetroCon

We can't thank Heloise "Kent" Diamante enough for wanting to cosplay as Audrey De Leon's Takip-Silim. She made us doubly proud by winning as the best cosplayer of a local character at the Metro Comic Con cosplay competition. Thank you so much, Kent! You were brilliant!

Here's a shot of Kent getting in character.

Photo courtesy of Heloise 'Kent' Diamante.

And here's Kent with some of the BK gang, including (fourth from left), Unix Gamboa, the creator of Takip-Silim's arch-rival, Devanta!

Photo taken by Pom Lacson with Unix Gamboa's cam.

To watch Kent's grand entrance, hop over to her journal for the video.

Once again, great work, Kent! We're looking forward to seeing you at the KOMIKON.

Soooo, anyone else out there want to cosplay as one of our characters?

Happy Second Anniversary, Bayan Knights!!!

On 26 August 2008, the first members of the Bayan Knights "met" at the group's very first online conference. Two years later, we now have more than 50 members, four issues of our main storyline, and countless books from our roster of creators. What have the past two years been like for us? Freaking awesome!

And we have all of you to thank for making it all possible.

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We celebrated our anniversary a few days early at the recently concluded MetroCon. The event was everything it promised to be and we got to meet some of you there too!

Here we have Manila Man and long-time supporter Jaybee Bonus (fourth from the left) who gifted us with way too cool Bayan Knights keychains. We really loved them, Jaybee!

Photo by John Becaro

Sarra Jean Navorra dropped by our table too and got a warm reception from Paul Michael Ignacio and Erico Calimlim :)

Over at the Indie Go Valley, Kai Castillo got along splendidly with Wan Mañanita, ~Eunice Gamboa and Rh Quilantang

This con wasn't without it's own starstruck moment. RJ Ledesma went home with an armload of our books!

Photo by Gio Paredes

Here's to another year, everyone. Happy anniversary, Bayan Knights!

Photo by Myke Guisinga

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About a week before the MetroCon, we were invited by the Loyola Book Club of the Ateneo de Manila High School to take part in their Linggo ng Wika activities. We had a grand time meeting the students and talking about making comics. We are very grateful to the club's moderator, Prof. Joel Falgui, for the incredible support!

Photo by Myke Guisinga

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As for our New OC recruitment contest, a total of nine (9) recruits made it to the deadline We're going through their "applications" as we speak and we have to say we're very impressed. You guys really gave it your all. Thank you so much!!!

Sarge btw has confirmed that it's okay for you guys to post your origin pages on your respective DA galleries. You can certainly mention that the pages were created for our contest, but we'd like to request that anyone refrain from labeling their OC as an official Bayan Knights member until the winner is announced. As stated in the contest rules, only the winner will become part of the Bayan Knights narrative.

While the entries are being reviewed, we also will not be able to post them in our main gallery. We hope you all understand :)

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Have you guys marked your calendars? Let's all head to the Star Mall on Nov. 13 for the 2010 KOMIKON!!!

Thank You, Thank You!

In behalf of all the Bayan Knights, we thank those who bought our comics, asked for autographs, took pictures with us and basically everyone who dropped by our booth to chat during the 2-day Metro Comic Con! More pictures and a proper report about the event to come soon (hopefully, hehe!..)

We'd also like to announce that our Recruitment Contest is now officially over! The 2-pagers we received were impressive and we thank those who took the time to join the fun and share their creations. We'll be announcing the winner pretty soon so keep checking our blog, our DeviantArt account and/or our group's Facebook page.

Stay tuned for more action!


Mark Rosario
Bayan Knights, Associate Editor

New Comics For Metro Comic Con 2010

The Metro Comic Con is pretty much just around the corner now and - as anyone can guess - some of our team members have hot, new comicbook releases in store for you!

You better mark your calendars now, guys! Metro Comic Con is happening this August 21 and 22, 2010 at the SM Megatrade Hall.

Here's what to look forward to:

Ang Astiging Boy Ipis #2
Story by Paul Michael Ignacio
Pencils by Gilbert Monsanto
Inks by the Bayan Knights

Ang Morion #3

Story and Art by Wan Mañanita

Unos Mundos #4
Story and Art by Wan Mañanita

Codename: Bathala #1/2
Story by Jon Zamar
Art by Judd Abinuman
Cover by Joseph Zacate

Kalayaan # 10
Story by Gio Paredes
Art by Gio Paredes and Erwin Ropa
Cover colors by Omi Remalante
Back Cover by Jomar Bulda

Sanduguan #7
(All Out War - part 3)
Story and Art by Gener Pedriña

Pag-Asa#4
Story and Art by Erico Calimlim
Cover colors by Wan Mañanita

Gwapoman #1 - MCC Variant Cover
Story and Art by Aaron Felizmenio
Ink assists by Renie Palo and Nidgel Bailon
Cover by Renie Palo

Gwapoman #2
Story and Art by Aaron Felizmenio
Cover pencils by Gilbert Monsanto
Painted by Aaron Felizmenio

/////Most of our titles will be at Table #64; that's the Komikero/Sacred Mountain table in the middle of the exhibition area, near the Indie Go Valley and the stage./////

Come with friends, family, frenemies! There's a Pinoy comic book out there for everyone! See you there!

Discounted Bayan Knights Sets at the Toycon!!!

All four Bayan Knights issues for only P50 each?

The deal's for real! Get Bayan Knights #1 to #4 for only P200 PLUS get a free copy of Rambol Komiks with each purchase of a set.

Look for us at the Independent Comics booth. Only at the 2010 Toycon this June 19-20 from 10am-10pm at Megatrade Hall 2-3, SM Megamall.

See you there!

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Our new OC recruitment contest is in full swing. Check out our previous blog entry for details on how to join.

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We'll next be at the Metro Comic Con from Aug. 21 to 22!!! Guess which of are creators are coming out with new titles!

Half the year almost over and we're still charging forward... Rock on, everyone!

Watch Out For MCC 2010

Sputnik Comic Signing

Catch Kalayaan-creator Gio Paredes for a Comic Signing event at Sputnik with fellow indie creators Macoy Tang (Ang Maskot, School Run, etc) and Andrew Villar (Ambush).

This takes place today so you might as well not miss this. See you there!

Summerkon Pix and Raffle Winners

We finally recharged after rushing to make it to the Summerkon and now we'd like to announce the winners of our Kon freebies.

First Prize winner who went home with a Bayan Knights Circle Heads T-Shirt designed by Jayboy Acosta and Levy Ramirez plus an 11x17 original inked artwork by Gilbert Monsanto is...

Bennard Fajardo! Congrats, Bennard!!!

And the winner of our black BK tumbler is Vincent Gagni while Jam Asuncion gets to bring home the white BK Tumbler. Congrats to you guys too!

As for our Guess the Artist contest, we have yet to receive the corresponding deposit slips with the necessary contact info. If you guys entered and donated, please email us at smp_letters@yahoo.com with the deposit slip and info on how we can get in touch with you :)

Now here are some of the photos we took at the Kon.Thanks again so much to the Komikon Committee and to all the exhibitors and attendees! See you all again in November!

Summerkon early-birds: (L-R) Uniz, Wan, Aaron, Renie, Mike

It's unbearably cute. Admit it! :p

RH Quilantang at the Indie Tiangge. His "Insomnoir: A Prelude to Manila Man, Defender of Whatever" was sold out!

Gener Pedriña, Heubert Michael Khan and Gilbert Monsanto are among the artists whose work appears in the Renaissance art book for the benefit of the victims of Typhoon Ondoy

Oh hey, that's (almost) all of us onstage! Thanks to Gio Paredes for the photo.

Starstruck Moment #1. That's our gang with our guest cover artist, the way-too-cool Harvey Tolibao! He's the guy holding his copy of BK4 :)

Starstruck Moment #2. Look who's a fan of Gio Paredes' Kalayaan :)


Details on our new OC recruitment coming up next. Stay tuned!

Oh, oh and Bayan Knights #4 now available at Comic Quest in SM Megamall, Comic Quest in SM North EDSA and at Comic Odyssey in Robinson's Galleria, Ortigas. Get yer copy now!

Coming To You This Summer Komikon

The Summer Komikon is just a few days away! See you at the UP Diliman Bahay ng Alumni this Saturday for more komiks goodness and other surprises. And hey! Don't forget to buy these titles from our group...

Bayan Knights #4 - The adventure continues in this 4th installment of the 6-part story arc. Guess the cover artist and win tons of freebies - including an 11x17 artwork from Gilbert Monsanto himself!

Insomnoir (Prelude to Manila Man: Defender of Whatever) by RH Quilantang

Sanduguan: All Out War by Gener Pedriña

Kalayaan #9 by Gio Paredes


Servant by Geoffrey Borgonia


Unstoppable #3 by Heubert Khan Michael


Unos Mundos #4 by Wan Mañanita


Landas Tungong Digmaan (Bootlegged edition) - Written by Jon Zamar, Art by Judd Abinuman, JM Valenzuela, Gabe Dela Cruz and Armand Roy Canlas


Digmaang Salinlahi #7 (indie version) - Written by Jon Zamar Art by Franklin Ouano