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Stamps featuring Carlo J. Caparas Comics Superheroes

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2008, November 17.  National Stamp Collecting Month
Featuring Comics Superheroes by Carlo J. Caparas
Litho Offset.  Amstar Company, Inc.  Perf. 14.
Se-tenant Blocks of 4, Sheets of 40 (4 x 10);  Souvenir Sheets of 2

Trivias about Carlo J. Caparas Comics Superheroes

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Carlo J. Caparas, born Magno Jose J. Caparas, is a director, producer, writer and a comics strip creator. He is the person behind many Filipino superheroes and “komiks” characters such as Panday, Totoy Bato, Gagambino, Panday and many others. 

When the comics industry took a dive in the 1990s, Caparas turned as producer and director of several movies. In 2006, Caparas spearheaded the Komiks Congress, a massive effort to revive the komiks industry in the Philippines. To help spread awareness that komiks is still a popular reading material amongst Filipinos, he toured the country with his Komiks Caravan, an exhibit of original comics issued across the country.

Stamps featuring Great Filipino Cartoonists

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The Philippine Postal Corporation will issue a set of Four (4) stamps and a souvenir sheet for the 2003 National Stamp Collecting Month (November), featuring some of the great achievers in Philippine art (cartoonists).

Trivias about Great Filipino Cartoonists

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Antonio Santos Velasquez (Tony Velasquez) was born in Paco, Manila on October 29, 1910. He is known as the "Father of Tagalog Komiks." In -1926, while a boy of 16 in high school, he worked as a photo-engraver at the Banaag Press in Santa Cruz, Manila, which was later bought by Ramon Roces of Liwayway. Velasquez took courses in Cartooning and Advertising at the Federal School of Arts of America. In 1935, he was promoted to chief artist for the six sister magazines: Liwayway, Graphic,Bannawag, Bisaya, Hiligaynon, and Bikolnon.