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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Graphic Adventures
By Ritchie Landis Doner Quijano
These are interesting times for the local art scene. The artistic climate is hotter than ever, and Cebu is getting to be more cosmopolitan in taste.
The city is no longer the sole turf of local artists. There’s a melting pot phenomenon that everyone in the art community is experiencing. In the past years, we’ve seen outsiders taking part in Cebu’s creative developments. Cebuano artists don’t have the monopoly in the ring anymore as they’ve welcomed and embraced art from non-local players as well as by foreigners.
And the number of expatriate artists who’ve settled in Cebu is constantly increasing. One of them is the graphic artist Earl Mullen, a native of New York. A Cebuana transplanted him here and he has called Basak, Lapu-Lapu home for three years now.
Earl is one of those total artists whose talent isn’t only limited in producing graphic designs. He creates original animated action characters for comics, bordering on the themes of fantasy, sci-fi, mythology and biblical-based heroes. Some of these characters and figures are incorporated in Mullen’s epicurean novel that revolves around an angelic relic for its plot. The chap’s a prolific writer as well. His unpublished 1000 page novel Rising Force is a work in progress that’s now in its final stage of editing; a story on the epic struggle between the forces of good and evil. Mullen plans to self-publish the book.
The photos on this page are a sampling of his characters and they’ll provide vignettes of the novel’s settings.
(August 16, 2005 issue)
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