NOTS GETS NOD FROM Trese's BUDJETTE TAN

Trese writer and co-creator Budjette Tan picked his "Best of the Year" list on the UK's Forbidden Planet International. Is it that time of the year now when we make our retrospective, listomanias? Had the pleasure to hang out with Trese's artist Kajo Baldissimo a month or so back and he was a very cool, tranquil dude.

Thanks for the pick, Mr Tan! You certainly have good taste  : )

Read the whole post HERE. Have excerpted it below.


Best of the Year: Budjette Tan


Today’s Best of the Year guest blog comes courtesy of the award-winning Filipino creator Budjette Tan, one half of the creative team behind the excellent Trese graphic novels (UK & US publishers, please have a look, this needs a wider audience). Over to Budj. . .


NEWS OF THE SHAMAN by Karl De Mesa (Published by Visprint) This is an anthology of loosely connected horror novellas. The book lends you a flashlight that badly needs batteries and asks you to point at certain spots in Manila, giving you a glimpse of this city where angels and demons roam, where creatures of Philippine folklore and lower-mythology have found new jobs and hobbies in the metro, where people casually practice magic and shamans are hailed like heroes and treated like rockstars.

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