EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 17 © 2016 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

37 Perhaps the best comic book creator you’ve never heard of, Francisco Coching created over 60 comic series during his lifetime and, with a few exceptions, all were turned into movies as well. That alone puts him head and shoulders above any other comic book creator, and marks him as being more prolific than a comics company such as Marvel, whose hundreds of characters have yet to surpass Coching’s staggering number of series adapted into movies. Text continues on page 39 ABOVE: Hagibis was one of the longest-running serials in Philippine komiks history. Inspired by Francisco and Pedrito Reyes’ Kulafu and Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan , Hagibis proved to be so popular that it was followed by six similar adventure-filled sequels. * Komiks is the general term used for comics created or produced in the Philippines.