It's an invitation to pause and smell the pages. The village bookshop and one of its owners (right), Marina Cruz. | PHOTO BY ISTORYA STUDIOS INC. (SPOT.ph) After venturing into book publishing, Rodel Tapaya and Marina Cruzjust opened their...
Published by Rodel Tapaya and Marina Cruz’s Istorya Studios, Russell Trinidad’s comics are as much visual art as literature Doktor Karayom’s art is infamously visceral—quite literally. His work is riddled with bloody and ghoulish representations of bodies human and almost...
This book is like grade school if it were a crime scene. A portrait of the illustrator on the left, and their book cover on the right. PHOTO BY DOKTOR KARAYOM / ISTORYA STUDIOS INC. ILLUSTRATOR: WAR ESPEJO (SPOT.ph)...
Pedo. Bugaw. Manyak. Mamboboso. Ideally, innocent children should not need to know these hideous terms. The Philippines, however, has been identified by international law enforcement agencies and NGOs as a “global hub” for live streaming of sexual abuse on children. Online sexual...
Leading Filipino contemporary artists Rodel Tapaya and Marina Cruz recently introduced two card games that revolutionise the way we teach Philippine history to our children
ISTORYA, a narrative design studio founded by artists Rodel Tapaya and Marina Cruz, creates toys and toys and print-based products on the history and culture of the Philippines.
