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| Born | Severino Marcelo (1939-01-22)January 22, 1939 |
| Died | October 22, 2002(2002-10-22) (aged 63) Manila, Philippines |
| Alma mater | Far Eastern University |
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| Years active | 1948–2000 |
| Organization(s) | National Media Production Center (1977–1986) |
| Children | 5 |
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Severino “Nonoy” Santos MarceloCA (January 22, 1939 – October 22, 2002) was a Filipino cartoonist, animator and filmmaker. He is best known for creating comic strips that lampooned lifestyles in Filipino youths includingPlain Folks andTisoy, the latter which was adapted into two films and a television series as a screenwriter. He is also an animation and sound director in films.[1][2] He was joined byNational Media Production Center to evadecensorship from politics at large, learned that the governmentblacklisted fellow cartoonists.[3]
Publicly viewed as apolitical cartoonist[4] for his irreverent, bitingpolitical satires andsocial commentaries incartoons provided on various Philippine issues that assumed to criticize the repressive regime infusing his projects with signature subversive humor in the midst ofmartial law administered by the Philippines' tenth presidentFerdinand Marcos Sr., led to his subject of the characterIkabod Bubwit (literally "Ikabod the Small Rodent" or "Ikabod the Small Mouse" inTagalog) in the comic strip of the same name, until the president was overthrown byPeople Power Revolution in 1986.Ikabod Bubwit became a satirical chronicle ofPhilippine politics and society.
Aside from political cartoons, he frequently tasked by the government in invitation to join theNew Society Movement as a filmmaker to directpropaganda films for theMarcos administration, includingDa Real Makoy (1977) andTadhana (1978), at the time which collaborated withclose friend andproducing partnerImee Marcos.[5]
Upon his legacy, Marcelo is widely called as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the Philippines, particularly his pioneering recognition of modern cartooning and first foray intoanimation, the latter admired by students for his influence on animation which led to become future animators creating their original and outsourcing works in the Philippine animation industry starting in the 1980s.[6][7]
Marcelo was born inMalabon,Rizal,Philippines on January 22, 1939, to David Marcelo, a war hero and an assistant dean ofFar Eastern University (FEU) and Rita Santos, an FEU English professor.[8] He was aprodigy.[9]
At the age of nine, he had a published book to his credit, a comic book entitledLikmuan ng mga Pighati sa Paligid-ligid (English:Seat of Sorrows All Around). He once admitted in an interview with the Diliman Review, drawing was already in his veins since he was a child.[7]
He created the comic stripsPlain Folks, which appeared in theDaily Mirror during the early 1960s, andTisoy in 1963 for theManila Times, which tells about the lifestyle of young Filipinos. His main character, Tisoy (slang for "mestizo"), and cast members such as Aling Otik, Maribubut, Caligula, Tatang, Tikyo and Kinse, soon became established in Philippine pop culture.
Marcelo developedTisoy in 1963, which lampooned Filipino lifestyles to youths. His characters Aling Otik, her grandson Kinse and his cat Myawok, among others, romped through the comic strip.[10][8] Alfredo Roces, a former dean of FEU, was his model for the main character.
Tisoy adapted three times during the Marcos administration: a 1968 television miniseries and its 1969 television film featuring Jimmy Morato andPilar Pilapil, and a 1977 theatrical film directed byIshmael Bernal, starringChristopher de Leon andCharo Santos.[11][8]
A 1977 half-hour propaganda documentary film about the former president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos during a trip toIlocos.[12]
Ikabod ran from the late 1970s to 2002. It was a satirical strip that re-cast the Philippines as a nation called Dagalandia. The strip humorously depicted the socio-political woes of ordinary Filipinos, as represented by the tailless Everymouse hero, Ikabod - who became as iconic in his own way as that other popular cartoon rodent,Mickey Mouse. Marcelo often used the strip to caricature political figures fromFerdinand Marcos andCorazon Aquino toJoseph Estrada andGloria Macapagal Arroyo, re-imagining them as mice.
He was collaborated again with Imee to participate the project adapted from Ferdinand's novel into an 54-minuteadult animated film titledTadhana (1978), which originally conceived as atelevision pilot due to a lengthy process.[13]
In 1979,The Adventures of Lam-Ang was produced a one-hour animated feature based onBiag ni Lam-ang, a Philippine epic poem.[14] At the same year, Marcelo served asanimation director for a seven-minute opening scene inNora Aunor'sAnnie Batungbakal.[15]
He was featured inTime for its cover storyMighty Pens, published on September 12, 1988, for his bold commentaries on the current socio-political state of the country through his comic strips, making him the only Asian cartoonist.[16][17]
In 1999, Marcelo made his final work as an animator inNoli andFili parts of the film. According to film directorMike De Leon, the original script of the film was meant to include several animation sequences from Marcelo, which he did studies but the animation proved to be an impractical idea.[18][19]
Marcelo graduated the Institute of Arts and Sciences from FEU with an AB English degree. He took a course in advance animation from theSchool of Visual Arts in New York in 1971 and a filmmaking course from theNew School for Social Research in 1972, soon became a cartoonist in an American magazine coverThe Advocate at the same year.[8]
Marcelo was appointed the title of Senior Lecturer in Film Animation at theUP College of Fine Arts by a chairwoman of Department of Visual Communication, Margarita Revilla Simpliciano, during the deanship of National ArtistNapoleon V. Abueva.[7]
Nonoy Marcelo died at theChinese General Hospital in Manila on October 22, 2002, at the age of 63. He died of sepsis due to complications from his diabetes.[20] He was survived by his five children: Dario, Sarita, Ninoy, Rajah and Jinoy; Dario was an editor and co-author of amemoirHuling Ptyk: Da Art of Nonoy Marcelo about his late father's history, collaborated with his father's friend Pandy Aviado.[6]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Animator | Editor | Notes | Ref. |
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| 1969 | Tisoy | No | Yes | No | No | [18] | |
| 1977 | Da Real Makoy | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Documentary film;directorial debut | |
| Tisoy! | No | Yes | No | No | |||
| 1978 | Tadhana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1979 | Biag ni Lam-ang | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Annie Batungbakal | No | No | Yes | No | |||
| 2000 | Bayaning 3rd World | No | No | Yes | No | Noli / Fili |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Animator | Notes | Ref. |
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| 1968 | Tisoy | No | Yes | No | [11] | |
| 1970s | Ikabod Bubwit | Yes | Yes | Yes | Television special | [21] |
| 1980s | Poptech Series | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 episodes | [18] |
After thePeople Power Revolution, Marcelo was given the Catholic Mass Media Award for the Best Comic Strip in 1986 forIkabod and in 1988 for bothIkabod andAling Otik. In 1998, Marcelo received theCultural Center of the Philippines' Centennial Artist Award, the only cartoonist to be honored; cited him by CCP for excellence in the visual arts and for helping define national identity by taking a stand on political and social issues.[7]
In 2002, the Patnubay Award for Visual Arts given by the City of Manila.[8] Eighteen years after his death, he has been nominated for the Order of theNational Artist in the Visual Arts category.
In 2008, Marcelo was posthumously honored the Lifetime Achievement Award by members ofAnimahenasyon, an annual animation film festival in the Philippines.[22]
The two Nonoy Marcelo and Egay Navarro] managed to push the limits, casually capturing their producer Imee [Marcos] smoothing the way with coy Barbie-doll eyes.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Drawing board to our country's first full-length animation by Nonoy Marcelo.
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