Telembang

TELEMBANG, subtitled “Lingguhang Mapagpatawa at Manunukso”, is a Tagalog satirical weekly magazine that was in circulation in the Philippines from 1922 to 1924. Edited by Filipino novelist Inigo Ed Regalado, this magazine contains hilarious stories, caricatures, and cartoons. According to art historians Alfredo Roces and Alfred McCoy, most of the cartoons were drawn by Fernando Amorsolo and Jorge Pineda. It also contains the very first regular komiks strip in the Philippines, Kiko at Angge, a hilarious cartoon series about a husband and wife and their differing views on Philippine society and politics.

There are all in all 111 issues of the Telembang from the first issue to the last, when it was forced to close down in 1924 due to a libel suit.

 KIKO AT ANGGE

KIKO AT ANGGE

Written by Inigo Ed Regalado
Illustrated by Fernando Amorsolo
Telembang, 1922-1924

KIKO AT ANGGE is the very first regular komiks strip in the Philippines. It antedated Kenkoy at Rosing for about seven years. Published in an obscure news-magazine called Telembang in the early 1920s, Kiko at Angge was written by Tagalog novelist Inigo Ed Regalado and illustrated by Fernando Amorsolo. It is a hilarious cartoon series about a husband (Kiko) and and his nagger wife (Angge) and their differing views on Philippine society and politics. It also reflects the life of the Filipinos during the middle years of the American rule in the Philippines.