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HALLELUJAH comics anthology

Posted by Calvary Comics on April 8, 2016 at 11:32am in PROMOS
3449082122?profile=originalhttp://www.calvarycomics.com/comics/Hallelujah/index.html
This black-and-white comics anthology is 80 pages in length, with full color covers, featuring stories from the Bible ("In the Beginning..." by yours truly, "In the Beginning was the Word" from the Gospel of John, "The Three Temptations," and "Messiah" by Todd Tennant), historical accounts ("The Real St. Patrick," "The Gospel Oak of Addlestone," and "George Washington Carver" by me), and a modern day testimony (of Filipino actor-turned-evangelist Fred Galang, a 34 page opus drawn by Nestor Redondo and translated into English for the first time).  These are supplemented by illustrations from pioneering Christian cartoonists Frank Beard, E. J. Pace, Vaughn Shoemaker, and Jack Hamm.  This book is a kindred volume to GLORY TO GOD which, at 80 pages, follows a similar thematic format of Bible stories, historical accounts, and modern day testimonies of people from various parts of the world.
Blessings in Christ Jesus,
Alec  

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  • Calvary Comics July 8, 2016 at 1:53pm

    3884718591?profile=original3884718613?profile=originalThe first image is of Fred Galang and Charito Solis who won the Best Actor and Best Actress Award at the 1969 Manila Film Festival.  Fred was already a major movie star throughout much of Asia at this point, and continued to be throughout the '70s.  But the Lord had other plans for him and he was wonderfully converted, and turned to preaching and evangelism.  The second image is of Fred baptizing a young person in more recent years, just prior to his passing in 2014.  Back in 1988 Nestor Redondo drew a beautiful comics story (34 pages in length) of his celebrity life and subsequent salvation in Christ, and, as I wrote earlier, a friend of mine from Manila translated it for me in to English so that it could be enjoyed once again by a wider audience. 

    Shalom!

    Alec

  • Calvary Comics July 7, 2016 at 12:28pm

    3884718451?profile=originalIn the Missouri Botanical Garden of St. Louis there is a beautiful, life-sized statue of George Washington Carver (by Tina Allen) which really captures his likeness well, as you can see here. 

    I really enjoyed sharing his spiritual journey in the new comics anthology, as it is something I've seen touched upon in other comics about him, but never as the main focus of the story.  I found many different quotes from him of his faith in Jesus Christ, and of his daily prayer life and God's blessing of it, and put them in the narrative in proper context.   

  • Calvary Comics July 6, 2016 at 12:06pm

    3884718207?profile=originalBy the way, these photographs enlarge when you click on them (especially the Gospel Oak of Addlestone photo).  Charles Spurgeon (one of the preachers mentioned in the Gospel Oak one pager), used to deliver his sermons in the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, UK, speaking to over 20,000 people at a time---without a microphone!  Not only does that speak of good acoustics in the sanctuary, but of a great set of vocal cords that he had.  Wow! 

  • Calvary Comics July 5, 2016 at 1:03pm

    3884718277?profile=originalAnd here is a photo of Slemish, County Antrim, Northern Ireland where St. Patrick was made a slave and a shepherd for seven years before the Lord opened a way for him to escape (yes, it does actually snow up there---and Patrick had to suffer through rain, snow, etc., living outdoors all that time). 

  • Calvary Comics July 5, 2016 at 12:56pm

    3884718108?profile=originalHere's a photo of the actual Gospel Oak in Addlestone, Surrey, UK.  Its scale is quite impressive!  Amazingly, someone tried to burn it down a few years back.  Despite that, and the fact that it is hollow in places, the tree still lives! 

    The HALLELUJAH anthology is doing very well, selling across North America as well as Europe.  I hope to have my next book out this fall (it is completed; it merely has to go to press). 

    Blessings,

    Alec

  • Calvary Comics June 7, 2016 at 12:15pm

    I almost forgot Danny Bulanadi!  He's another Filipino brother in Christ who used to work in secular comics and is more recently doing work for Michael Pearl and for Kingstone.
     
    Calvary Comics said:

    Another great difference is that Nestor surrendered his life to Jesus Christ in the early 1980s.  The only other Filipino artist who has worked professionally in secular comics who is born again is Rico Rival (artist of the BROTHER YUN graphic novel).  I mentioned secular, because Johnny Yngente drew the United Bible Society comics titles in the 1980s. 

    HALLELUJAH comics anthology
    http://www.calvarycomics.com/comics/Hallelujah/index.html This black-and-white comics anthology is 80 pages in length, with full color covers, featu…
  • Calvary Comics June 4, 2016 at 6:50am

    Yes, Nestor Redondo is generally regarded as the best Filipino artist to work in comics, and that's saying a lot!  A few come close to giving him a run for his money, such as his predecessor Francisco Coching, or his contemporaries Tony de Zuniga, Alfredo Alcala, and Alex Nino, or the following generation such as Leinil Yu.  Another great difference is that Nestor surrendered his life to Jesus Christ in the early 1980s.  The only other Filipino artist who has worked professionally in secular comics who is born again is Rico Rival (artist of the BROTHER YUN graphic novel).  I mentioned secular, because Johnny Yngente drew the United Bible Society comics titles in the 1980s.   

    A few years ago I obtained permission from Open Doors to reprint MARX, LENIN, MAO, & CHRIST, a comic originally published in 1977 and drawn by the Redondo Studio (Nestor and his brother Frank Redondo, with numerous assistants).  It compares and contrast the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the false tenets of Communism, Socialism, and Maoism.  I saw how quickly the US is becoming a socialist nation and felt compelled to get this one back in print.  The quality of life will drop severely here in the upcoming decades, should the Lord tarry in coming.  We are witnessing the erosion of the middle class and what will be left is a small group of haves and a very large group of have-nots.  These same conditions occurred just before the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917, to cite only two among many such examples.  History repeats itself again and again.  "Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."  Proverbs 14:34   

  • Allan Leitner May 31, 2016 at 2:37pm

    > Here's page one of the beautiful Nestor Redondo story which closes out this anthology!

    Beautiful!

  • Calvary Comics May 19, 2016 at 11:09am

    Actually, Brien, only the logos of the publications are meant to load in the slide show, so you saw the Hallelujah scan correctly.  If you click on any of the slide images, then the entire image will show, along with access to preview pages. 

    Best regards,

    Alec

  • Brien Sparling May 18, 2016 at 4:58pm

          What fun to go through the new site. Only a portion of the Hallelujah slide loads...slowly, but the navigation arrows and drop downs work quickly and flawlessly. Always love seeing the EJ Pace artwork again. Thanks Alec!

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