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In the wake of his lawyer mother’s sudden death, 19-year old law student Jude Aguilar returns to the town of Lazaro and takes over her practice—but the only thing stranger than the peculiar cases she left behind are the clients themselves.
The atmospheric gloom of Grimoire Noir meets the legal drama and moral questions of Josè Rizal’s Noli me Tangere in STRANGE CASES, a coming-of-age gothic horror and legal procedural graphic novel for adults that draws inspiration from both European gothic tradition and Filipino literature and culture to create a surreal world that is both uncanny and comfortably familiar. Outwardly dark, oftentimes bizarre, but tender and human at the core, it is a somber but hopeful tale of moral ambiguity that interrogates the concept of ‘monstrosity’ and asks us to rethink what ‘justice’ is—ultimately revealing the soft underbelly of what it means to be human, perfect for fans of Emily Carroll and procedural crime dramas. |
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The AO-33 Nebula
A 16-page original horror comic about a team of scientists and the nebula they discovered. |
Nest
A short comic about a strange family living out in the woods. |
The Body from the River
The body of a man washes up on a riverbed near the small town of Isolde. With no trace of him on any public records, the townsfolk are left to speculate on who he is and where he came from. My comic for the 2023 ShortBox Comics Fair. Will be available on gumroad soon! |
Homecoming
A comic about two estranged friends, a high school reunion, and a small town—except everyone’s got a skeleton in the closet. |
Neophobia: A Deconstruction of Filipino Horror
The horror genre finds itself situated in a paradoxical position: simultaneously the analog of the anxieties of the common folk and the perpetrator of the ideological ends of the ruling hegemonic order—thus, this zine problematizes who the figures of Filipino horror are and asks: why have we created them in the first place?
Neophobia is a 60-page zine that serves as a deconstruction of Filipino horror, blending illustration, comics, and graphic design. The zine is divided into three parts: Setting the Stage, which provides the historical context of how supernatural creatures found their way into the Filipinos’ collective unconscious; Lights, Camera, Action, which discusses images and stories in specific Filipino horror films; and Closing Night, a fictitious short story based on the lived experiences of individuals. When they step out of the theaters and close their television screens, what is revealed is a fear much more pervasive and inescapable than the terror of the 'other'—it is the terror of everyday life.
This is the zine I made as my creative output for my seniors thesis in the UP Diliman College of Fine Arts
The horror genre finds itself situated in a paradoxical position: simultaneously the analog of the anxieties of the common folk and the perpetrator of the ideological ends of the ruling hegemonic order—thus, this zine problematizes who the figures of Filipino horror are and asks: why have we created them in the first place?
Neophobia is a 60-page zine that serves as a deconstruction of Filipino horror, blending illustration, comics, and graphic design. The zine is divided into three parts: Setting the Stage, which provides the historical context of how supernatural creatures found their way into the Filipinos’ collective unconscious; Lights, Camera, Action, which discusses images and stories in specific Filipino horror films; and Closing Night, a fictitious short story based on the lived experiences of individuals. When they step out of the theaters and close their television screens, what is revealed is a fear much more pervasive and inescapable than the terror of the 'other'—it is the terror of everyday life.
This is the zine I made as my creative output for my seniors thesis in the UP Diliman College of Fine Arts
