Cesar Asar in the Planet of the Noses

The first time I came upon rough copies of Roxlee's Planet Of The Noses, it was obvious that here was a Filipino original. It's not exactly a graphic novel in the strictest sense of the term, nor is it comics as we knew it in our younger days. Rather, the closest we could come up with is 'illustrated shorts', since they are in the same league as the filmmaker's now classic shorts, The Great Smoke and Juan Gapang' [Johnny Krawl]. The narrative seems to have sprung out of the wild, and the drawings are of course unmistakably Rox.

Even those not certified deep thinkers will find enjoyment here, and the most we can do really is to learn how to stop making sense.

— Juaniyo Arcellana, Philippine Star

Published in 2008 by Khavn de la Cruz

100 pages