Description
The fully colored regular pages of the Pilipino FUNNY Komiks were bound in between coated book-paper cover. Among the first contributions to the comic book that was 90-percent made up of cartoons were ''Bing Bam Bung'' by Larry Alcala, ''Planet Opdi Eyps'' by Roni Santiago, ''Superkat'' by Leandro S. Martinez, ''Batute'' by Rene Villaroman and Vic Geronimo, ''Darmo Adarna'' by R.R. Marcelino, Joseph Christian Celerio, and Rey Arcilla. Later contributions were ''Superdog'' (a replacement for ''Superkat'') by Christian dela Cruz and Roni Escauriaga, and ''Niknok'' (a replacement for ''Batute'') by Pat V. Reyes. Apart from its cartoon-character contents, ''Pilipino FUNNY Komiks'' encouraged the participation of its readers by launching projects such as the publication of drawings created by children, photographs of children taken by parents for the ''Birthday ng mga Bida'' (literally "Birthdays of the Stars") section, and the publication of humorous anecdotes written by parents in the ''My Funny Child'' pages. In this regard, ''Pilipino FUNNY Komiks'' readership became not limited to children alone, but also to adult consumers who enjoyed the contents of the comic book. Thus later on, featured pages for more mature readers had been added such as Fr. Ben Carreon’s jokes column, the educational vocabulary builder ''Broaden Your Vocabulary'' section, pages that present idiomatic expressions together with their meanings and sample usage in sentences, and biographies and photographs of outstanding Filipinos.Competition
In the 1980s, the Graphic Arts Service, Inc. (GASI) published comic books similar to ''Pilipino FUNNY Komiks'', namely the ''Bata Batuta Komiks'', and the ''For Children Only Komiks''.References
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