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Ikaros

This week I read Gani Riel Cabezas’ Ikaros for my weekly Filipino komik on Penlab. It’s a short story about connection and responsibility. The creator writes it was done as a “speedrun” but even so the art is expressive and the comic holds together well.
The cover of the comic Ikaros.

This week I read Gani Riel Cabezas‘ Ikaros for my weekly Filipino komik on Penlab. It’s a short story about connection and responsibility. The creator writes it was done as a “speedrun” but even so the art is expressive and the comic holds together well.

A comic panel with a person longing to be able to fly.
Comic panels with birds and expressing that even birds eventually need to land.
Comic panels expressing being unable to leave friends and family forever.
A comic panel with the words "We all needed each other. We're all we have."

There was a time I envied birds. They had the gift of flight, and we did not. With a pair of wings, I thought, one could simply fly away from the turmoils of the earth. But maybe I was wrong. “Ikaros” is a short comic reflecting on home, migration, and our responsibility to our land and to each other. 

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