Pugad Baboy One
The first compilation of Pugad Baboy comic strips
Cartoons and narrative
Apolonio “Pol” Medina Jr.
1997
Collection: Design Center of the Philippines
Pugad Baboy by Pol Medina Jr. caught the Filipino popular imagination for its simultaneously droll, critical, and affectionate view of Filipino life in urban poor precincts. Featuring a large cast of characters familiar in television sitcoms “located” in the same socio-economic demography, Medina’s cartooning and writing virtuosity created a comic mirror to a life almost universally recognized in the Philippines. This mirror shows human density, smiling faces, and two-dot eyes close together: images of a slightly deranged, easy-going population.
Reference:
50 Years of Philippine Design and Beyond
National Museum of Fine Arts
You may want to read: