Cartoons and characters [Larry Alcala]

Title

Creator

Navarro, A.R.

Language

English

Year

1969

Subject

Cartoonists

Cartooning

Alcala, Larry

Rights

In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Fulltext

CARTOONS & By A.R. NAVARRO 0 NE of the most prolific among our better-known cartoonists today is LAURO (Larry) ALCALA. Since his first comic strip appeared in 1945 in the pioneer comic book Captain Philippines, Larry Alcala has published approximately 6,000 pages of cartoons consisting of about 50,100 frames .•. If his works were compiled and bound, Larry should be able to present about 20 volumes of 300 pages each volume. At Weekly Nation where he works as art director, Larry regularly puts ·out the comic page "Mang Ambo" and, jointly with 10 Er. Flores, "This Business Of Living." Graphic Arts Service Publications is currently carrying Larry Alcala's series: "Project 13," "Congressman Kalog," "Kalambogesyons," and "Barrio Pogspak." Craft Publications carries "Loverboy" weekly while Pilipino Komics, Inc. publishes "Trese Medya." For 16 years, Ace Publications had regularly carried Larry Alcala's "Kalabog En Bosyo" and "Tipin." Both comic strips have been temporarily suspended. Larry's first comic strip which run for more than two years was "Islaw Palitaw" (see illustrations). At the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and Architecture where he is an assistant professor, Lauro Alcala teaches advertising_ and editorial design. How can a man do all these things and still find time for his family and also play "pekua" (domino)? Larry. wakes up at five in the morning to jog for an hour around the U.P. Village where he has built a· home for his wife (the former Guadalupe Valdez) and his three children. After breakfast, he dresses up and at nine, he is at his drawing board at Nation. He goes home for lunch and from two until seven he meets his classes in U.P. From 9 :00 p.m. until midnig-ht he does his regular comic strins. Sometimes, he puts the fini!'lhing touches to his drawings before jogging the fallowing day. Larry's week-ends are for his family and for fun. "He is the most wonderful guy I have ever known,'' says Mrs. Alcala about Larry. In recognition of his artistic skill, Lauro (Larry) Alcala has received the following awards: "MOPC-SPIC Award of Excellence In Cartooning'' (1962), "SPIC First Prize Award In Illustration," (1963), and "SPIC First Prize Award in Humorous Cartoon" (1965). R-11 PHILIPPINE MAGAZINE, MARCH 15, 1969

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