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REVIEW: The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror: Omnibus #2

Closing in on October, boys and girls of all ages sit close to their tv screens to watch the much anticipated Halloween Spectacular. The Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror is a collection of short animations featuring our favorite cast of yellowed-skinned cartoons in thrilling, horrifying, and gruesome stories. This in many households is a tradition not unlike that of the carving of the pumpkin,…

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Eerie #93 ‘Strangers in the Strangest Places! Part Two’, ‘Honor and Blood’, ‘Kingdom of Ash’, ‘The Einstein Factor’ and ‘The Slime Creature of Harlem Avenue’ (1978) by Bill DuBay, Abel Laxamana, Alfredo Alcala, Nicola Cuti, Leo Durañona, Bob Toomey, José Ortiz, Pepe Moreno, Alex Niño and more. Edited by Louise Simonson. Cover by Don Maitz.

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The Rook #9, June 1989. Abel Laxamana.

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ISOLATED COMIC BOOK PANEL #2496 title: THE ROOK MAGAZINE #9 - P20:3 artist: ABEL LAXAMANA year: 1981

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“Composed Of Pure Anti-Energy”

The Rook #10 (August 1981)

Jim Stenstrum and Abel Laxamana

Warren Publishing

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Filipino Comics Art Fridays | Abel Laxamana

Every Friday, I take a look at the work of one of the almost 200 Filipino artists who illustrated horror, sword-and-sorcery/fantasy, western, sci-fi, and war comics for American publishers during the 1970s and early 1980s. The “Filipino Wave,” as it came to be called, saw the likes of Nestor Redondo, Alfredo Alcala, Alex Niño, Tony DeZuniga, Rudy Nebres, Ernie Chan, and many others pencil and/or ink scores of issues for DC, Marvel, Warren, and other outfits, helping define the look of an era.

This week’s featured artist is Abel Laxamana.

If there's one thing we've seen time and again in our continuing rundown of the Filipino Wave artists, it is that sheer talent alone, no matter how prodigious, does not necessarily assure an artist's place among the consensus all-time greats. Such is the case with Abel Laxamana, a brilliant illustrator and visual storyteller who, at the height of his American comics career, was one of a handful of artists who could legitimately challenge the legendary Alex Niño for the unofficial title of the Filipino Wave's most dynamic stylist.

Laxamana's relative obscurity—he is a virtual unknown among those whose tastes run towards the comics mainstream—might be attributable to the somewhat limited showcase for his work: For the first five years of his career, Laxamana's comics art appeared exclusively in the Warren Publishing stable of black & white comics anthology magazines, at a time when the publisher was struggling to maintain its position in the market.

Laxamana's first American comics work, a ten-page story in Eerie #92 (May 1978), offered up hints of his potential as an all-time great:

It would just be a scant few months later that the artist would begin work on one of his best serial works, a strip in Warren's 1984 magazine featuring the cheekily-named Rex Havoc & the Asskickers of the Fantastic, an offbeat and irreverent sci-fi romp that would serve as a platform for Laxamana's rapidly evolving inking and storytelling tendencies:

Laxamana would go from strength to strength with each outing but for some reason, he never made the transition to DC Comics, Marvel Comics, or any of the upstart independent publishers making waves during the early 1980s such as Eclipse Comics and First Comics. When Warren Publishing shut its doors in 1983, Laxamana's burgeoning comics career ground to a sudden halt. All in all, he drew 33 strips for the publisher, with most of them appearing in the “adult fantasy” magazine 1984 and its successor title, 1994.

Like so many of his Filipino Wave peers, Laxamana would eventually make his way to the animation industry. He worked primarily as a background painter and a storyboard artist during the late 1980s and for a significant part of the 1990s, and his many TV animation credits include C.O.P.S., G.I. Joe, James Bond Jr., X-Men, The Real Ghostbusters, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Exosquad, and Skeleton Warriors.

Laxamana wasn't entirely done with comics, however. He is credited with providing art assists in a 1990 issue of Dark Horse Presents and in 1995, he inked Sharon Bridgeman's pencils in a short story that appeared in Bongo Comics' Radioactive Man 80-page special. He would return to Bongo in 2001, providing pencils for a short story that appeared in the second issue of Bongo Comics Presents Radioactive Man.

The series would go on to win the 2002 Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication with Laxamana being cited as one of the responsible creators, making him the first Filipino Wave artist to receive recognition from the Will Eisner Comic Industry panel for a contemporary work.

Abel Laxamana's American comics bibliography (does not include reprints):

"The Microbe Patrol": 1984 #2 (August 1978), Warren Publishing

"Commfu": 1984 #3 (September 1978), Warren Publishing

"Rex Havoc & the Asskickers of the Fantastic": 1984 #4 (October 1978), Warren Publishing

"The Spud From Another World!": 1984 #5 (February 1979), Warren Publishing

"She Who-Must-Be-Okay!": 1984 #6 (June 1979), Warren Publishing

"Madmen and Messiahs": 1984 #8 (September 1979), Warren Publishing

"Humungus": 1984 #9 (October 1979), Warren Publishing

"Thinking of You!": 1984 #10 (December 1979), Warren Publishing

"Baby Makes Three!": 1994 #12 (April 1980), Warren Publishing

"Voyage to the Bottom of the Barrel": 1994 #13 (June 1980), Warren Publishing

"Baby Makes Three, Part 2": 1994 #14 (August 1980), Warren Publishing

"Baby Makes Three, Part 3": 1994 #15 (October 1980), Warren Publishing

"Baby Makes Three, Part 4": 1994 #16 (December 1980), Warren Publishing

"The Big Cerebration": 1994 #17 (February 1981), Warren Publishing

"Et Tu Casey!": 1994 #19 (June 1981), Warren Publishing

"The Warhawks!": 1994 #27 (October 1982), Warren Publishing

"The Warhawks, Part 2": 1994 #29 (February 1983), Warren Publishing

"No One Gets Over the Underground!": Bongo Comics Presents Radioactive Man #2 (March 2001), Bongo Comics [note: pencils only]

"Risky Be the Rumpus Room": Bongo Comics Presents Radioactive Man #7 (June 2003), Bongo Comics [note: pencils only]

"The Thing in the Haunted Forest": Creepy #102 (October 1978), Warren Publishing

"Rapid Fire Angel": Creepy #115 (February 1980), Warren Publishing

"Junior": Creepy #133 (November 1981), Warren Publishing

"Crash Ryan (Part II)": Dark Horse Presents #45 (November 1990), Dark Horse Comics [note: credited for “art assist”]

"Strangers in the Strangest Places!": Eerie #92 (May 1978), Warren Publishing

"Strangers in the Strangest Places, Part Two": Eerie #93 (June 1978), Warren Publishing [note: co-illustrated by Alfredo Alcala]

"A mystic-phychic-magician-genius-inventor should believe in luck...": The Goblin #1 (June 1982), Warren Publishing

"Fantastic Void": The Goblin #2 (August 1982), Warren Publishing

"Catastro the Convertible": The Goblin #3 (November 1982), Warren Publishing

"The Radioactive Man of 1995!": Radioactive Man #1 (1995), Bongo Comics [note: inks only]

"Joe Guy, America's Foremost Hero!": The Rook Magazine #7 (February 1981), Warren Publishing

"January 30, 1981": The Rook Magazine #8 (April 1981), Warren Publishing

"Cardinal Synn, Archfiend Of The Universe!": The Rook Magazine #9 (June 1981), Warren Publishing

"Dad!": The Rook Magazine #10 (August 1981), Warren Publishing

"Air Whale Express": The Rook Magazine #13 (February 1982), Warren Publishing

"Steak-Out": Vampirella #84 (January 1980), Warren Publishing

To read the other entries in the Filipino Comic Art Friday series of posts, click here.

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Vampirella Archives Vol. 12

Bill DuBay, Cary Bates, Bruce Jones, Chris Adames, Archie Goodwin, T. Casey Brennan, Roger McKenzie, Nicola Cuti, Jean Michel Martin, Pierce Askegren, Marc Laidlaw, Bob Toomey, Budd Lewis, Michael Fleisher, Laurie Sutton, Gerry Boudreau (w) Pablo Marcos, Leo Duranona, Jose Ortiz, Martin Salvador, Sanjulian, Esteban Maroto, Gonzalo Mayo, Jose Gonzalez, Brian Lewis, Val Mayerik, Buz Vaultz, Jeff Easley, Kim McQuaite, Steven Harris, Jimmy Janes, Rudy Nebres, Auraleon, Abel Laxamana, Garcia Pizarro, Paul Gulacy, Val Lakey, John Lakey, Noly Zamora, Alex Nino, Terrence Lindall, Jun Lofamia, Enrich (a) Paul Gulacy (c) FC • 400+ pages • $49.99 • Teen+

The terror continues in the fear-fraught twelfth volume of Vampirella Archives! This collection revisits some of the finest tales of horror hostess Vampirella ever seen in the Warren Publishing library, plus a delightfully devilish selection of the era’s best horror and science fiction stories. With space pirates, mermaids, bloodsuckers, and renegade wizards running amok within these pages, fearless readers will thrill to the creative talents of such horror luminaries as Archie Goodwin, Bruce Jones, Jose Gonzalez, Bill DuBay, and many more. This edition of Vampirella Archives collects Vampirella Magazine #80-88, and features a wealth of bonus materials from a bygone era, including the “Feary Tales” feature on urban legends, the monthly “Scarlet Letters” column, “Vampi’s Vault” of creator biographies and literary reviews, and intact vintage advertisements.

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Vampirella Archives Vol. 12 preview. The terror continues #comics Vampirella Archives Vol. 12 Bill DuBay, Cary Bates, Bruce Jones, Chris Adames, Archie Goodwin, T. Casey Brennan, Roger McKenzie, Nicola Cuti, Jean Michel Martin, Pierce Askegren, Marc Laidlaw, Bob Toomey, Budd Lewis, Michael Fleisher, Laurie Sutton, Gerry Boudreau (w)

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Preview: Vampirella Archives Vol.12 - All-Comic.com

Vampirella Archives Vol.12 Story: Bill DuBay, Cary Bates, Bruce Jones, Chris Adames, Archie Goodwin, T. Casey Brennan, Roger McKenzie, Nicola Cuti, Jean Michel Martin, Pierce Askegren, Marc Laidlaw, Bob Toomey, Budd Lewis, Michael Fleisher, Laurie Sutton, Gerry Boudreau Art: Pablo Marcos, Leo...

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ISOLATED COMIC BOOK PANEL #2175 title: THE ROOK MAGAZINE #9 - P20:1 artist: ABEL LAXAMANA year: 1981

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“This Looks Like A Job For...”

The Rook #10 (August 1981)

Jim Stenstrum and Abel Laxamana

Warren Publishing

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“Danger Blast Furnace”

The Rook #10 (August 1981)

Jim Stenstrum and Abel Laxamana

Warren Publishing