Where are you going,
Martial Law Babies?
A STORY OF LIVING, LOVING AND LEAVING
Award-winning graphic novelist Arnold Arre takes us on a nostalgic trip through some of the Philippines' most colorful and compelling eras - from the rigidness of pre-EDSA Manila to the dizzying, commercially-intoxicated world of the new millenium.
Allan and his friends are Martial Law Babies: born during the Marcos regime, raised by TV, and shaped by 80s music. Their ambitions may be dampened by third world realities and malcontention but they also proudly belong to a generation of dreamers who fight for their voices to be heard. They are among the so-called "Bagong Lipunan" children, trying their best to live up to their name. But over the years, as Allan watches his friends leave one by one and feels his sense of idealism wane, he starts to wonder where they are all headed. |
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Arnold Arre has won National Book Awards for The Mythology Class and Trip to Tagaytay. He is currently working on several other novels, all of which touch on various aspects of Filipino life. Martial Law Babies is his fourth graphic novel.
Visit www.arnold-arre.com
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"Arre has done for comics what the Eraserheads did for music with “Ultraelectromagneticpop”: catch, in an addictive, accessible package, the zeitgeist of an elusive era that has now come of age." [more] - RUEL S. DE VERA, Phil. Daily Inquirer (Nov. 14, 2008)
"...it is 286 pages’ worth of vivid characters, class issues, pop-cultural archeology, unfiltered outbursts, heart-melting affections, self-destructive obsessions, flights of fancy, and sheer storytelling bravado." [more] - LUIS KATIGBAK, Manila Bulletin (Nov. 20, 2008)
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