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 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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