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Kulafu, King of the Jungle in the Philippines

Artist: Francisco Reyes (All)

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Title:	Kulafu, King of the Jungle in the Philippines
Artist:	Francisco Reyes (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	681
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	7/6/2023
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A contemporary of Tony Velasquez, Jose Zabala-Santos and J.M. Perez, Francisco Reyes great contribution to Philippine cartoon art is his immortal KULAFU. Of course, none of us younger geneartion living today will know that, because Kulafu existed only during the pre-war years of Philippine cartooning.
Influenced by Rice Borrough's Tarzan, Kulafu was the first ever cartoon strip to cover two whole pages of the Liwayway, and in full color! It was a very popular cartoon at that time, even competing with Kenkoy in terms of mass readership, yet after the war, Reyes surprisingly did not continue Kulafu, but instead created Talahib, another Tarzan-like character in the Halakhak Komiks. Yet despite his early demise, KULAFU will always be remembered as The Lord of the Philippine Jungles.

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	Ken Picardo
Joined:	August 2010
Last Login:	July 2025
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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 7/6/2023

You can see how there is the influence from Tarzan and other jungle heroes strips with how much classical figure drawing there is to express struggle and triumph over nature. The colors are so vivid and strong despite age and wear.

Ken Picardo
Member Since 2010

1 - Posted on 7/6/2023

Marcus Wai wrote:

Back in the day when adventure comics Dominated
the periodicals Marcus, but I'm still searching for a printed version of a kulafu Komiks, which I think will take me more than a decade to find. That's my adventure as a Komiks collector.

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