Keep the Philippine Comics Industry Alive and Kicking

(for the final requirement/speech in Oralcomm.)

A hundred and twenty years. Old enough to be called a culture. Old enough to greatly affect human lives. Old enough to be praised. But old enough to die? Not yet. No. Never. The Philippine Comics Industry now exists for almost 120 years in our country. Though the continuous success of comics began by the year 1929, when Tony Velasquez published in the Liwayway Magazine the comic strip “Kenkoy”, it was believed that the first comic strip ever in the Philippines is “The Monkey and the Tortoise” created by no less than Dr. Jose Rizal. The industry has already experienced fame, fun and failure. Fame as for these years it had been read all over the Philippines and I’m proud to say that we, Filipinos had adapted this to our culture. Fun because we also consider comics as our entertainer just like those tv dramas and radio programs. But failure for at present, the Philippine Comics Industry is declining. Many chose to stop reading comics because of the rise of other and more interactive forms of entertainment such as televisions and the internet. It is still there. It is still alive but we need to keep it alive and kicking. Let us move to rebuild the Philippine Comics Industry. Contribute, support or promote.

Contribute. We, as future journalists and writers can definitely write comics. Simple one-liners can create comic strips or if you feel like sharing more, you can create comic books such as the ever popular Pugad Baboy of Pol Medina. As for the cartoons, if you have the skills, you can do it alone or if not, you could easily partner-up with someone with the talent and they are everywhere. Here, in our classroom, many have the skill to draw or even in our University, most of them are at the Beato Angelico. Rebuild our comics industry, write and draw comics.

If not contribute, support! If you do not prefer to write comics, I bet you’ll love to read it. I guess almost every one of us here has already read even one comic strip, who would not have? Comic books and comic strips are very accessible. Tabloids, broadsheets, magazines, internet, bookstores or just borrow from your friends. Rebuild our comics industry, read comics.

If not read, watch. Many of our legendary and great comics before are relived today by different television companies. Darna, Captain Barbell, The Spectacular Adventures of Zsa Zsa Saturna are some of these. Movies are also made from old comics, such as Lastikman and Dyesebel. Rebuild our comics industry, watch comics.

If not contribute, neither read nor watch, promote! Encourage others to contribute and support Philippine comics. Rebuild our comics industry, promote comics.

Comics have been a part of the Filipino culture. It is part of our identity. We have it in ourselves. We own it. And we should fight for it. The future of the Philippine comics industry is in our hands, in your hands. Contribute, support and promote; rebuild the Philippine Comics Industry.

BEFORE AND AFTER's || cultivation theory

Okay. For the application of our lesson about Cultivation Theory, our JRN201 professor asked us to make a blogpost about a common idea that many people get from watching television regularly.
As part of my introduction, I quoted this description from Hilbert College's site so you would somehow cope with what am I going to say later in this blogpost if ever you're not a part of our class. And for my teacher and my classmates, I hope you'll like my post. :)

"Cultivation Theory is a theory of mass communications that states that society's perceptions of reality are cultivated by what we watch on television. In other words, the theory surmises that because an individual watches "ER" on television, that individual assumes that all hospital emergency rooms are just like the one portrayed in the show. The theory is most famous for its applications to the correlations between media violence and violent behavior, but cultivation research has covered all aspects of television's effects on society."

Okay. BEFORE AND AFTER's. Out of my random thoughts, I find this idea very interesting and funny so here is it. It is my topic.

We commonly see them in shampoo, soap and lotion commercials. Sometimes, it has also been used in television dramas (like when the ugly daughter of Bakekang became beautiful and when an obese woman became sexy). It has been usual in advertising products that a bad or ugly figure is shown before you use the product and after use, a better and beautiful figure will be shown. Most advertisments follow that story. And yeah, many people buy it.

I remembered a joke about a filipino who sells his detergent soap in another country where reading is in the other way around. They read from right to left, instead of left to right so the man's product did not sell in that country because the posters he made features a dirty shirt on the left side and a clean white shirt on the right. Poor man. Who would buy a detergent soap that would make their clothes dirtier after wash? haha.

We are cultivated in a way that most of us think that this or that product would make us look better or we will get better result when we use those products that have been advertised that way. Most of us would be dependent to those products since they were caught up by the "before and after" effect. And most of us are expecting BIG changes and I guess that's the real effect of BEFORE and AFTER's. We expect huge and fast changes which in reality would take some time to happen.

I can say that this idea gives some good benefits because they somehow make the people think that he or she has a chance to improve him or herself. The bad part is that, it makes the people think that he or she has a chance to improve him or herself only if they use those advertised products and sometimes could make he or she disappointed of the result and might lead to over use or overdose.

okay! That's it. Hope I did it well. I'm sorry for the errors if you would find some.I love you. :)