There are times when we face problems and needs for solutions in life. This is a fact of reality. So, I begin this article with that seemingly silly repetition of what you have heard before, and I continue with this silly repetition of what you have heard before, for it is the key to solving all problems universally or it would not be repeated so much. There comes into all of our lives comes a time when we face things we wish we did not have to face and we have to face them with patience and understanding that is complete in every way. Indeed, without these times though we could not grow. Really, that is a fact of reality I type about in this article. Sure, I could say something different than this just to be different, but I am using the approach that is time tested, only I admit that is nothing new in any way. For this article is going to go somewhere. This article is going to face life head on with all its challenges, fears, tricks and everything. This article is going to consciously tread a path most people want to travel unconsciously and without responsibility. Although this article is nothing new, it is an awakening article in the ultimate way in that it makes you face what you avoid with genuine honesty and alacrity.
Sure, I could try to take a new approach to the oldest problem in existence and the only real problem in existence which is purposeful fear and unconsciousness. Sure, they seem like two separate things, but they are really one and the same in every way. Fear is only avoidance as unconsciousness avoids responsibility. I can explain and clarify that statement. To not want to know or grow productively is immoral, that is the ultimate purposeful fear and unconsciousness when you think about it. Most political policy laws are based upon this fact. Most supposed danger that is based on irrationality and being purposely unconscious and genuinely not caring about a situation until it is too late is based on this fact. Facing reality is the secret to genuinely productive living, no matter what, no exceptions. What is possible is possible, what is real is real. Rules do not change for anyone applying the genuine objective reality law and principle.
There are no “new” approaches to any genuine principle except what works with it is new to each person that applies that principle for the first time. What works always breeds ideal results. What does not work always breeds bad results. There is no other way to make the reality of the situation anything but this plain, simple and real fact. If there was, then gravity would not be a definite principle, chemistry would not either or any physical science would be invalid and we could all jump out of twentieth story building and fly instead of fall to the ground under the rational law of gravity. I am not encouraging this action, but I am just illustrating how reality genuinely works in every genuine way. There is no other way for it to work properly, other than by genuine honest principle. Indeed, all you or I can do is patiently work with the situation until it is where we need it, not so much want it. Now, sure, that is old advice, but it does work. The oldest advice and most genuinely unalterable reality genuinely is natural working law and natural working principle. All we can do is work with it, patiently, and grow with it. The facts are the facts, they do not change, they are principle in every genuine way.
My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer. As a kid I did construction work with my Dad which taught me many things like plumbing, hard labor and electrical systems, and I took notes for my Dad’s home poker games at my Uncle Johnnie Gilmore’s house, so I have a lot of life experience, sure. But I went to Cal State Dominguez Hills College, UCLA, and El Camino Junior College and learned a lot, but never got around to getting a degree, just lots of money spent, good grades and some credits. So, here I am currently freelance writing and working at a senior center for a living. But enough details of my life, what I do is not what I am. So here is what I enjoy, I enjoy reading, listening to music (everything from Beetoven, Strauss and Bach to The Meters, ELO and The Band and Dylan/Garcia and The Grateful Dead also, when they were the Grateful Dead. Well, as you can tell by SOME of the music I listen to, I am a very eclectic person. I am also a deep science fiction fan and as said before, a lover of books. If I were to go into everything it would take thousands of words and I only have about three hundred words here, of which I have used 290 of already. Well, I end here. Thanks. Joshua Clayton.
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![The man who started it all speaks of how the Tagalog komiks came to be. As reminisced by the “Father of Tagalog Komiks”, ANTONIO S. VELASQUEZ, it all started in 1926 when he was 16. Tony, as he is fondly called, worked as a photoengraver at the Banaag Press in Sta. Cruz, Manila. It was during his year’s stay there that he got a glimpse of the prospects for fame and commercial (financial) possibilities in the illustration business. While in Banaag, pharmaceutical companies sought him out to draw their product labels. His work at the press consisted of putting into print musical compositions of Filipino masters such as Nicanor Abelardo, Francisco Santiago, Constancio de Guzman, and others. He is a hard and fast worker. His “sideline clients” as he termed it, grew and his drawing skill was honed.
When Don Ramon Roces, owner-publisher of Liwayway Magazine, decided to buy the photoengraving department of the Banaag Press, all the artists and engravers there were taken in as part of the deal. As a result, Tony realized his ambition – which was the ambition of all artists at that time – to become part of the very prestigious Ramon Roces Publications, Inc.
It was fortunate for Tony to have been at the right place at the right time. Romualdo Ramos, then a translator in the Liwayway advertising department, was eager about coming out with illustrated funnies as the magazine’s supplement. And because the senior artist, Procopio Borromeo, who was assigned to do it could not find the time to create one, the task was thrown onto the lap of Tony who was then just a subordinate artist. Collaborating with Ramos who supplied the jokes and storyline, Tony gave life to Kenkoy, and the very first continuing series of komik strips was born. That was in 1928. But the first issue came out in the Liwayway Magazine on January 11, 1929. The enthusiastic reaction of readers to “Mga Kabalbalan ni Kenkoy”, as the komik strip was entitled, prompted Ramos to put out another. That was Ponyang Halobaybay. Tony designed clothes for Ponyang which became the fashion trendsetter in those days.
The Ramos-Velasquez tandem clicked but it was abruptly terminated by the untimely death of Ramos in 1932. Tony suddenly found himself going solo.
Kenkoy was a hit with Liwayway readers. So impressed was Prof. Nicanor Abelardo that he composed the song “Ay, Naku, Kenkoy!” Poet Jose Corazon de Jesus, better known as Huseng Batute, was impressed too. He wrote as a tribute to Kenkoy a poem entitled “Pagpapakilala” and subtitled “Ay introdius yu Mister Kenkoy”.
In 1935, Tony was promoted to chief advertising artist for the six magazines –Liwayway, Graphic, Bannawag, Bisaya, Hiligaynon and Bikolnon, with Deo Gonzales and Donato Duque as his assistants. Incidentally, except for the Graphic Magazine, Kenkoy came out in translated versions in all the five sister magazines. That gave the strip nationwide exposure and popularity.
Tony pioneered in cartoonized advertising. He created cartoon characters to personify consumer products – “Isko” for Esco shoes, “Tikboy” for Tiki-Tiki Manuel Zamora,“Nars Cafi” for Cafiaspirina, “Captain Cortal” for Cortal, “Castor” for Botica Boie’s Castoria, “Aling Adina Comadrona” for United Drug products, “Charity” for Philippine Charity Sweepstakes and many others. All that while, Kenkoy continued to “blaze in the tradition of poking fun at contemporary events in a modernizing Philippines.”
Tony soon picked out and introduced complementary characters along with Kenkoy to depict the typical family and community set-up. There were Kenkoy’s parents, Mang Teroy and Aling Matsay; Rosing, his Mari Clara-type sweetheart; Tirso, Kenkoy’s archrival; Talakitok, the neighborhood dimwit; Nanong Pandak (he of the unlimited wealth) and his side kick, Talimusak; Tinyente Dikyam; Dr. Wakwak; Saring Bulilit(which came out in the Liwayway Extra, a separate magazine); and Kenkoy’s children, plus the adopted Tsikiting Gubat, a clever but non-speaking child who never wore pants; and Detektib Bembo (which came out in Hiwaga Magazine).
When World War II broke out and the Japanese occupied the country, most publications were shut down. But Liwayway continued to operate under Japanese control. Kenkoy was recruited by the Japanese Information Bureau to mouth its health drive in the Philippines, thus it became the only komik strip to continue existing even during the Japanese occupation. Tony was also commissioned to do a daily strip forThe Tribune. This was the Kalibapi Family, which depicted the new social order under the Japanese rule.
In 1945, after the American liberated the country, Tony continued doing Kenkoy andPonyang Halobaybay for the Liwayway Magazine but no longer as an employee but as a free-lance contributor because he had by then put up his own advertising agency with brother Damian.
In 1946, Atty. Jaime Lucas, a bookstore owner, published the Halakhak Komiks, the first in the Philippines, with Isaac Tolentino as the Editor. Tony and his brother Damy, while running the Velasquez Advertising Agency in Rizal Avenue, Manil, became the contributors of the Halakhak Komiks, together with Francisco Reyes, Francisco Coching, Procopio Borromeo, Esmeraldo Izon, Gene Cabrera, Jose Zabala Santos,Malang Santos, Jesse Santos, Fred Carrillo, Pedro Coniconde, Lib Abrena,Hugo Yonson, Elmer Abustan, Ross Chanco, Larry Alcala and Liborio Gatbonton. However, due to business problems, Halakhak Komiks folded up after the 10th issue.
In 1947, Don Ramon Roces invited Tony to a conference where he broached the idea of putting up a komiks-magazine. The challenge was too tempting to turn down. Tony organized Ace Publications, Inc. Its first komiks was the Pilipino Komiks which initially came out June 14, 1947. The issue had a print order of 10,000 copies forthnightly. For two years, Tony ran the Pilipino Komiks singlehanded until Angel Ad Santos was hired as his assistant. As the staff grew, Ace Publications introduced a long line of Tagalog komiks that are now considered as the progenitors of the komiks industry. After Pilipino Komiks, came Tagalog Klasiks (1949), Hiwaga Komiks(1950), Espesyal Komiks (1952) and the pocket-sized Kenkoy Komiks (1959), which was later transformed to standard komiks size.
On August 26, 1959, because of his achievements as a self-made cartoonist-writer-illustrator-executive and recognized pillar of the komiks industry, Tony was invited to speak by the student body of the College of Fine Arts and Architecture of the University of the Philippines. Subjects discussed were Cartooning, Architecture, Art Appreciation and the Birth of the Komiks Industry in the Philippines.
With the fullblown success of the komiks, the publisher felt a sense of responsibility to the komiks readers just as a newspaper publisher would. With Tony Velasquez,Angel Ad Santos, Clodualdo del Mundo and Ramon Marcelino, in collaboration with the Catholic Laymen’s Committee for Decency manned by Messrs. Ernesto V. Lagdameo, Demetrio S. Santos, Rev. Francisco Avendano, the Association of Publishers and Editors of Philippine Comics Magazines (APEPCOM) was organized. Tony became its president for eight consecutive years. The aim of the APEPCOM was to promote the moral welfare of the komiks-reading public by publishing “only clean wholesome, entertaining and educational strips”.
Ace Publications under Tony led the komiks industry for the next fifteen years after its founding. In 1962, a sister corporation of the Ace Publications, Graphic Arts Service, Inc. was organized by Tony’s brother, Damian, while the former was still with Ace. After one month, Tony joined his brother in the new outfit at the Gen. Solano St. in San Miguel, Manila. They, together with Ramon R. Marcelino and other newly hired editors, introduced Kislap Komiks (now a leading movie magazine). Along with Kislap, which was an instant hit, other komiks-magazines were introduced one after another - Aliwan Komiks, Pioneer Komiks, Holiday Komiks, Pinoy Komiks,Pinoy Klasiks and Teens Weekly Komiks. All these komiks-magazines became household names in the country.
Tony was born October 29, 1910 in Paco, Manila. He attended elementary grades at Sta. Ana Elementary School and Paco Elementary School; finished first year at Manila South High School and while working with the Ramon Roces Publications in Sta. Cruz, Manila, finished the secondary course at the night school of Jose Rizal College; took correspondence courses in cartooning and advertising from Federal School of Arts of America, 1935, and modern interior decoration from New York School of Interior Decoration,1936; graduated in modern management at Management Development Center, Manila, 1962.
In 1972, Tony Velasquez retired as general manager of Graphic Arts Service, Inc. But as old soldiers do, he did not fade away; he merely stepped to the sidelines still writing, with the same vigor and zest, short stories which he contributes regularly forLove Story Illustrated Weekly Magazine. This time, however, he has no deadline to beat, no poor printing to worry about, no slow-poke illustrators to contend with.
Even if Tony chooses to stop completely from indulging in his art form, he will always be remembered. For Tony Velasquez is more than a cartoonist-writer-executive. He is an institution.
Awards received: Special award, Citizens’ Council for Mass Media (CCMM) for management of Tagalog komiks-magazines without equal in the field of mass media, March 12, 1971; Patnubay ng Kalinangan sa Larangan ng Makasining na Komiks, conferred by the City of Government of Manila, June 24, 1974; Special award given by the Department of Public Information on August 19, 1974; and the Life Achievement Award, conferred by the Komiks Operation Brotherhood, Inc. (KOMOPEB, INC.) March 15, 1984.
Tony was married to Pilar S. Tongco, a retired school teacher. They have only two children: Rosalina, a physician, and Remedios, a registered nurse. [1]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4imqyMCYA1qadppqo1_250.jpg)
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