As you can see in the preview pages, Kajo has redrawn Book 1 with our new art style. “Our publisher asked us to bump up the page count, so me and Kajo are adding more pages in each story. “ABLAZE is publishing Book 1 and it will bigger, your typical American TPB size,” Tan explained. 1: Murder on Balete Drive.” ABLAZE promises the next volumes in the future. We’ve just been waiting for the right time to announce it,” an elated Tan, who now works for LEGO in Billund, Denmark, said ” And since it’s already being solicited in Previews, then we needed to start talking about it.”ĪBLAZE Publishing, a company set up by Rich Young (who has worked with Dynamite and Dark Horse) will be publishing the series in September beginning with the original volume: “TRESE Vol. “We’ve been keeping this a secret for over a year, I think. That’s because “TRESE,” the comic book he created with Jonathan “Kajo” Baldisimo now has an American publisher. “He was a fellow geek and he knew, back then, that getting into Marvel or DC was the impossible task. “I just remember I was hanging out with someone who read my write up and said, ‘Really? You’re getting into comic books when you graduate,’” Tan told Super. But back in the 1990s, such dreams didn’t often come true when big comic book companies ruled the roost. More than that, he dreamed of making his own. When he was a child, Tan escaped into the pages of American comics, dreaming of those panels and the creative action within.

When Ferdinand-Benedict “Budjette” Tan was graduating from the Ateneo in 1994, his college yearbook write-up ended with: “Remember me with these two words: comic.

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