Doktor Karayom’s unusual graphic prescriptions

Doktor Karayom’s unusual graphic prescriptions

Published by Rodel Tapaya and Marina Cruz’s Istorya Studios, Russell Trinidad’s comics are as much visual art as literature

“Grade 3”by Doktor Karayom (L) and Doktor Karayom | PHOTOS: ALTPHILIPPINES INSTAGRAM and ISTORYASTUDIOS.PH

Doktor Karayom’s art is infamously visceral—quite literally. His work is riddled with bloody and ghoulish representations of bodies human and almost human done in his signature red.

The good doctor announced last December he had written and illustrated a book. His debut “Grade 3” became available in January and was officially launched at Art Fair Philippines in February.

“Until now, it sounds like an episode of ‘Wish Ko Lang’ to me,” says Doktor Karayom, whose real name is Russel Trinidad, said in Filipino.

 

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