IKABOD: Let’s Makebaka, Don’t Be Takot!!!

IKABOD: Let’s Makebaka, Don’t Be Takot!!!
Illustration, writing
Offset printing
Paper, printer’s ink
Collection: Beda Requejo
Severino “Nonoy” Marcelo, a cartoonist, was among the Philippines’ most effective social critics from the 1960s to the 1980s. His characters left an indelible mark in the national imagination: the rat Ikabod Bubwit, and the cool downtrodden Tisoy, a half-American street punk who was a foil to his mother, Aling Otik. They inhabited the ruins of Intramuros, Manila. Marcelo’s cool broadsides at Philippine leadership and commentary on the Filipino’s foibles were sustained by a distinctive drawing iconography recognizable to the Philippines’ reading population.
Reference:
50 Years of Philippine Design and Beyond
National Museum of Fine Arts
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