Jose Rizal: Komikero

 

I read this interesting piece today about our National Hero. I never knew he did some comics too. He created the first known Filipino comic strip. Another reason to admire this guy.  Thanks to blogger Dennis Villegas.

While Rizal was staying with the Ullmer family in Wilhelmsfeld, he created a comic strip called “The Two Brothers,”which he gave Friedrich "Fritz" Ullmer as a gift. Fritz was the young son of his friend and host Pastor Ullmer. These comic strips, along with several other drawings and sketches done by Rizal during his stay with the Ullmers, are intact to this day. The Ullmer descendants kept these precious mementoes and were eventually discovered by Mrs. Paz Mendez (of the Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission), while she was traveling to Germany to retrace Rizal’s footsteps.

 You can read the entire blog by clicking the link below.

 http://dennisvillegas.blogspot.com/2011/06/rizals-self-portrait-circa-early-1880s.html