AN OPEN LETTER

It is finally clear to me that I‘ve been missing out on something these past few years. I’ve had this nagging feeling that I needed to do something but I just can’t seem to place my finger on it. Like most passionate comic book artists, I’ve always wanted to help the local komiks industry. But how?

It has been a long while since my last class as instructor at Whilce Portacio’s comic creation course at LEARN, Megamall. It never dawned on me that I should continue teaching. But a lot of people have been asking me how I can help them to get into the business. The most common answer to that would be to never stop practicing. But without a structured plan to drive them, they will be relying on their own pace, which may not be rigorous enough for them to improve their work to the level they’ll need to actually make it. So I realized that a program is needed to cultivate the talents of budding artists.

So this summer, I will be holding sessions on comic book art for a limited number of participants. This will be conducted twice a week, with a total of 12 sessions. It all starts March 25. For interested parties, please call 6556780 from Monday to Wednesday and look for Glenda for more information. You may also email us at gleam_73@yahoo.com.

This is just the beginning of more exciting projects for this year. I’ll post in more about them soon.

-Gilbert Monsanto

PANDAY by Carlo J. Caparas and Steve Gan

Although, this is also for the Digmaan version :)

ZARBOT by Jim Fernandez and Hal Santiago

WS try out page 3

Here is the third and final installment for the try out script. Too bad I am no US resident :)

WS tryout page 2

Here is page 2 out of 3

WS tryout page 1

Although I can't join the Wildstorm Talent search. I'm still doing that Sample script. Here is page 1 out of 3.

LIZARDO by Carlo J. Caparas

My version for Digmaan, Hope its okay.

DINO by Jim Fernandez

The BATMAN

Done in 3 hours :)

SANDATA by Gener Pedriña

KAPITAN KIDLAT by Leonardo P. Abutin

Not exactly a komik character, he's from a radio show into a Movie. But everyone will surely say that he should get a title in print.

BERDUGO by Carlo J. Caparas

ZUMA by Jim Fernandez

CYBERNAUT by Gilbert Monsanto

LASTIKMAN by Mars Ravelo

This cover is done by Mar Santana.
Thanks Gerry for the reference.

BIOTROG by Jojo Ende Jnr. and Gilbert Monsanto

Find more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotrog

KAMPEON by Mike Tan and Gilbert Monsanto

New Feature

I will be needing your help here guys. I decided to try and draw every single Character inside our local komiks. Can you give me infos and requests? You can send me old scans and some infos, that will really help me out trying to be faithful to the characters. Although I might give them a little tweaking.

send them to monsanto_72@yahoo.com

You will seeing a list of characters I have done in alphabetic order at the right side of this blog.

Thanks,
Gilbert Monsanto

Something for myself this time :)

I've been trying to finish this page for a long time now. I actually finished it yesterday within 3 hours when our phones got disconnected. Apparently the cables were stolen, yup you heard me right. The phone company was able to fix just today.

Anyway here is Spidey! :)

I was forced to go out and go to internet cafes just to check my emails and lucky enough I was able to finish all my work in time.

New Year Art

Just something I did for my publisher, Kevin Nagel. Wishing him a blazing and exciting new year! I feel that 2006 will be a great year for us all!

FIREBIRD/The Saints copyright Kevin Nagel
Saturn Comics