Gerry Alanguilan talks about the state of comics preservation in the Philippines over at The Comics Journal.

“Up until 2004, a tradition of preserving, archiving and collecting classic Philippine comics never existed. The few Filipinos of the current generation who were aware of the old classic comics from the 1940s to the 1970s can only look upon in envy at the hundreds upon hundreds of trade paperbacks, hardbacks, Absolute editions, and Omnibus collections coming out of America that effectively gave the world an easily accessible archive to decades of American comic books.”

Alanguilan laments the fact that the “Philippines never had that kind of tradition, in spite of the fact that this country has one of the oldest comic book industries in the world.”

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