Ikabod Bubwit
Ikabod Bubwit (literally "Ikabod the Small Rodent", "Ikabod the Small Rat", or "Ikabod the Mouse") is a fictional character created by Nonoy Marcelo, and serves as an allegory of the socio-political woes of ordinary Filipinos.[1][2]
He is among the characters for which Marcello is best known.[1][3] The satirical comic strip[2] about Ikabod Bubwit ran from the late 1970s through 2002.[4]
Design
[edit]Ikabod Bubwit himself is considered as the most famous mouse character created by Marcelo.[4] As the title character in the comic strip Ikabod, Ikabod Bubwit was the humorous representation of the socio-political woes of ordinary Filipinos.
Inspirations
[edit]The comic strip was used at times by Marcelo to reference and portray Filipino political figures, including Ferdinand Marcos, Cory Aquino, Joseph Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.[2] Marcelo depicted Ikabod Bubwit as an “irreverent mouse” with “funny antics” who lived in Dagalandia (literally "Mouseland" or "Ratland").[3][5] Ikabod's hometown, Dagalandia, was described as a “recast” of “the Philippines as a nation”[4] with “an apt mirror image for the turbulent setting of the Philippines” during the present and in the past.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Nonoy (1940 - 2002) Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, wittyworld.com
- 1 2 3 CARTOONIST Noynoy Marcelo, abs-cbnnews.com
- 1 2 Aranda, Rene. ‘Ikabod Bubwit’ creator is dead, philstar.com, October 23, 2002
- 1 2 3 SEVERINO "NONOY" MARCELO (1939-2002) Lifetime Achievement Awardee Archived September 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, animahenasyon.com
- ↑ Panao, Alicor. Ptyk is home Archived January 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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