Komiks, anyone?

Just where can you buy comics for 25 cents these days?! These may be ancient, but your favorite Filipino comics writers and artists have chosen to include representations of women in their works as well. Here are a couple of them:

A warrior princess from a Moslem tribe,the fierce and feisty Prinsesa Bituin is no damsel in distress!

It is interesting to note, as our English 197 professor commented, that we have yet to see representations like these of women coming from Christian backgrounds. If you find any, feel free to e-mail us and let's get them posted!

Mars Ravelo's 1950s classic "Jack and Jill" features a female who is able to take on the role of a jeepney driver and make it in a "men's world".

"Jack and Jill" was also turned into a film by Viva in 1987 starring Sharon Cuneta as Jack (Jacky Lou) and Herbert Bautista as Jill (Hilario) and had a sequel titled "Jack and Jill sa America". The good thing about this representation is that although both Jack and Jill seemed to have reversed conventional roles, their father freely accepts this. However, in this clip, they are shown to view what happened to them as a "mistake" and are constantly quarrelling. They remain to be a hilarious pair to movie viewers, remembered for how they endlessly argue but more so because in the end, they always stood for each other.

Watch it here: