What do you think?
Rate this book
Tarantadong Kalbo #3
Tarantadong Kalbo Volume 3
Nagsilabasan ang mga payaso at hunyango, dahil election season na! Ito ang koleksyon ng mga komiks ni Tarantadong Kalbo sa taong 2022, ang bubuo sa trilogy ng kabadtripan.
208 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2022
1 person is currently reading
19 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
September 19, 2024
Mas seryoso na dito kasi ung setting ay 2022, nung panahon ng eleksyon sa Pilipinas.
🎶 Oh happy days, happy days 🎶
Anyway, hindi lang ako totally agree dun sa rejection nya sa sim registration. Ang dating kasi sakin, ang pessimistic. Yung mga mali lang ang nakikitang pwedeng mangyari. Hindi makita ang benefits. Though hindi rin naman totally hindi maganda kung "pessimist" ka, kasi at least nakikita mo yung mga loopholes. Medyo negative vibes lang sakin ung dating. Anyway.
Tuloy ang laban! Let's go, Philippines!
🎶 Oh happy days, happy days 🎶
Anyway, hindi lang ako totally agree dun sa rejection nya sa sim registration. Ang dating kasi sakin, ang pessimistic. Yung mga mali lang ang nakikitang pwedeng mangyari. Hindi makita ang benefits. Though hindi rin naman totally hindi maganda kung "pessimist" ka, kasi at least nakikita mo yung mga loopholes. Medyo negative vibes lang sakin ung dating. Anyway.
Tuloy ang laban! Let's go, Philippines!
September 21, 2022
If you are from the Philippines, you've probably seen a comic strip or two from @tarantadongkalbo. Well, he just recently released his 3rd book, and this one mostly chronicles the happenings from the recent Philippine elections (which really feels like a different timeline - more on that later) and the pandemic.
His illustrations and words are always spot-on. They are rooted in reality, which is kind of sad, because it is our reality.
While I have seen some of the strips in this book online, there are still some that have surprised me, and opened up a can of emotions that I've suppressed since May 2022 aka the darkest timeline (I know a lot of us have done the same thing, and have been kind of on auto-pilot since). Even just seeing the 'dancing sibuyas' on the inside cover already broke me, and took me back to that time when hope was what I truly felt.
I like the way the comic strips were arranged: light (somehow) at first, and then heavy, and then finally, some hope at the end.
It was the last few pages (esp page 205) of this book that really did me in, though. I was not prepared for that 😅🥺😭 I did not want to feel this way again, but I guess, I also needed to. I'll quote from 13 Going on 30: 𝒘𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅. 𝑰𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒊𝒕 -- 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒖𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔.
His illustrations and words are always spot-on. They are rooted in reality, which is kind of sad, because it is our reality.
While I have seen some of the strips in this book online, there are still some that have surprised me, and opened up a can of emotions that I've suppressed since May 2022 aka the darkest timeline (I know a lot of us have done the same thing, and have been kind of on auto-pilot since). Even just seeing the 'dancing sibuyas' on the inside cover already broke me, and took me back to that time when hope was what I truly felt.
I like the way the comic strips were arranged: light (somehow) at first, and then heavy, and then finally, some hope at the end.
It was the last few pages (esp page 205) of this book that really did me in, though. I was not prepared for that 😅🥺😭 I did not want to feel this way again, but I guess, I also needed to. I'll quote from 13 Going on 30: 𝒘𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅. 𝑰𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒊𝒕 -- 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒖𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔.
September 20, 2024
Five stars, kahit masakit.
Sa totoo lang, masakit talaga para sa akin na balikan 'tong edition na 'to. Cover pa lang, parang maiiyak na 'ko.
Tulad ni TK, isa rin ako sa mga taong lubos na umasa ng pagbabago sa Pilipinas noong 2022. Turning point na sana ito para sa bansa, kung -- kahit ngayon lang sana -- matututo naman tayong mag-elect ng mga lider na makabubuti sa atin, imbes na magluklok na naman sa pwesto ng mga literal na lason sa lipunan. Bittersweet balikan ang bawat pahina ng compilation na 'to, dahil gaya ni TK at ng marami sa atin, nag-attempt rin akong lumaban, umasa, mangarap, kumampanya. Ramdam ko 'yung gigil ni TK, 'yung muhi niya sa bulok na sistema, at 'yung alab ng pag-asa niyang -- this time -- magwawagi na ang katotohanan at mga taong may adbokasiya nito. And I share these sentiments with him.
Gaya ni TK, nakaramdam din ako ng dilim noong lumabas ang resulta ng eleksiyon. 'Yung portrayal niya ng gloom sa mga pahina, ramdam na ramdam ko 'yun. Kung paano niya ipinakita ang "impending doom" sa pamamagitan ng comic strip, ganyang ganyan ang naramdaman ko, dahil gaya ni TK, hindi ko na rin alam kung saan pupulutin ang bansang 'to.
Pero heto pa rin tayo, tuloy lang ang buhay kahit mahirap. We may have lost the election, but the fight for good governance will always be our advocacy. That election season, which TK so wonderfully portrayed in this edition, will always be close to our hearts. And to that, I thank TK, for perfectly capturing our sentiments through every page of this book. Salamat, Kakampink. Lalaban pa rin tayo.
Sa totoo lang, masakit talaga para sa akin na balikan 'tong edition na 'to. Cover pa lang, parang maiiyak na 'ko.
Tulad ni TK, isa rin ako sa mga taong lubos na umasa ng pagbabago sa Pilipinas noong 2022. Turning point na sana ito para sa bansa, kung -- kahit ngayon lang sana -- matututo naman tayong mag-elect ng mga lider na makabubuti sa atin, imbes na magluklok na naman sa pwesto ng mga literal na lason sa lipunan. Bittersweet balikan ang bawat pahina ng compilation na 'to, dahil gaya ni TK at ng marami sa atin, nag-attempt rin akong lumaban, umasa, mangarap, kumampanya. Ramdam ko 'yung gigil ni TK, 'yung muhi niya sa bulok na sistema, at 'yung alab ng pag-asa niyang -- this time -- magwawagi na ang katotohanan at mga taong may adbokasiya nito. And I share these sentiments with him.
Gaya ni TK, nakaramdam din ako ng dilim noong lumabas ang resulta ng eleksiyon. 'Yung portrayal niya ng gloom sa mga pahina, ramdam na ramdam ko 'yun. Kung paano niya ipinakita ang "impending doom" sa pamamagitan ng comic strip, ganyang ganyan ang naramdaman ko, dahil gaya ni TK, hindi ko na rin alam kung saan pupulutin ang bansang 'to.
Pero heto pa rin tayo, tuloy lang ang buhay kahit mahirap. We may have lost the election, but the fight for good governance will always be our advocacy. That election season, which TK so wonderfully portrayed in this edition, will always be close to our hearts. And to that, I thank TK, for perfectly capturing our sentiments through every page of this book. Salamat, Kakampink. Lalaban pa rin tayo.
December 10, 2022
What a year it has been. I can’t believe that it’s already December and how we’ve felt a whirlwind of emotions in the early months of 2022. Thank you, Tarantadong Kalbo for helping me relive all the hopeful memories and all the raw emotions I should carry to continue to fight this battle for our country. We may not know what the future brings but seeing your work always give me the spark to #NeverForget. And with that, “Patuloy tayong titindig.”
February 7, 2023
I love Tarantadong Kalbo’s works and this is his most subversive and political anthology yet! As a Leni supporter, this is so relateable in so many levels and is a good souvenir of the Election Season and a good reminder of what transpired during 2022.
June 18, 2023
Got me laughing per page
October 24, 2024
This is a perfect way to look back at the 2022 elex. Bonus points kung babasahin mo sya ng 2024 with non-existent "unity". Salamat TK!
January 28, 2023
The foreword by Lourd de Veyra does a great job of framing this third compilation of Tarantadong Kalbo's brilliant comics. He describes him as being more than a political cartoonist but more as an opinion columnist in his own right even if no broadsheet newspaper carries his byline.
If Volume 2 did an amazing job of capturing our life in quarantine with all the ridiculous decisions made in the name of the pandemic, Volume 3 captures the emotional lead-up to the 2022 Presidential Elections. And beyond his amazing ability to capture such nuanced moments and insights based on Philippine current events and headline stories, he speaks with an amazing genuineness that shines through even with a single-panel comic.
One of the most emotionally impactful parts of this book is how he responded to the backlash by some Leni supporters to his "y a s s i s t a 💖" comic. Most cartoonists don't break format and "reply" to readers through their art, which is exactly what he did.
And you don't expect a compilation of comics to have a narrative flow to it, but that's exactly what we got here. You feel the build-up to the elections, the fires of hope that we might actually get a better level of leader, and of course the actual results and how we all reacted to our new reality. And to wrap it all up, he ends with a call to continue to resist and to fight for what's right.
And he didn't have to do that. He could have just ended things with a joke. But not TK - he ended it by continuing to raise his voice and speak truth to power.
If Volume 2 did an amazing job of capturing our life in quarantine with all the ridiculous decisions made in the name of the pandemic, Volume 3 captures the emotional lead-up to the 2022 Presidential Elections. And beyond his amazing ability to capture such nuanced moments and insights based on Philippine current events and headline stories, he speaks with an amazing genuineness that shines through even with a single-panel comic.
One of the most emotionally impactful parts of this book is how he responded to the backlash by some Leni supporters to his "y a s s i s t a 💖" comic. Most cartoonists don't break format and "reply" to readers through their art, which is exactly what he did.
And you don't expect a compilation of comics to have a narrative flow to it, but that's exactly what we got here. You feel the build-up to the elections, the fires of hope that we might actually get a better level of leader, and of course the actual results and how we all reacted to our new reality. And to wrap it all up, he ends with a call to continue to resist and to fight for what's right.
And he didn't have to do that. He could have just ended things with a joke. But not TK - he ended it by continuing to raise his voice and speak truth to power.
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews