Elbert Or's Blog

If anyone's wondering what's happened to the site, we-e-ell… I kinda sorta forgot what my password was. Hence, my inability to update the site in the past months. Sigh… Anyway! Updates! Global Art Katipunan is currently in the middle of its summer program, but we're still accepting students — in fact, we accept students the [...]

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I just wanted to let people know of my new book, now out in bookstores. After the Storm: Stories on Ondoy is a collection of stories, essays, and photos that I curated, published by Anvil. It's been a year since Ondoy, but there's still a lot of people who have not fully recovered from it; [...:]

After 3 years of teaching comics production classes in Ateneo, and making comics for longer than that, I'm now opening a weekend workshop on comics production so I can share what I've learned to more people (and, of course, learn from them as well, in the process).

KOMIKSABADO is a comprehensive workshop on comics production [...:]

We're having the art center blessed this July 24th, and so Teacher Hannah, Teacher Jen, and I decided to just make an event out of it. And so we're inviting everyone to our GlobalArt Katipunan Art Party, where we'll essentially just be inviting everyone to come in an draw! We'll be providing pens and paper [...:]

Tahanan Books is launching my most recent book project, Love of My Buhay, along with two others at Mary Grace Serendra on Monday, July 19 5-7pm. Come by and say hi okay?

Been busy with the art school these past couple of months, and this is the first drawing I've done in a couple of months, and was really just me being excited about the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie. The Beatles' "If I Fell" was playing in my head as I drew this.

Oh, website, how I missed you! Oh, internet, how I missed you!
Now that I've (more or less) fully recovered from my wrist injury, I can return to updating the site more often, as well as tweaking the website. In my absence though, I've gotten into Tumblr and Twitter, because they're both oh-so easy to do [...:]

Global Art is opening its new center in Katipunan this Saturday, March 20, and we're inviting you to join our international art and creativity program designed to help children 4 and up to develop their fullest potential! (And lest you think there's an age limit — one of our first students is 53 years old!) [...:]

Are you a pushover parent? Have you ever given in when you shouldn't have? Do your kids have you wrapped around their cute, chubby fingers? Putting your foot down should not mean having to step on anyone's toes. This workshop, using tried and tested techniques from the world of business, equips parents like you with [...:]