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Gabby Atienza's Deputy Dodgers sees print!


If you're free this weekend and you dig comicbooks, drop by and support homegrown comicbook talent. Gabby Atienza is a local artist and his Deputy Dodgers has been his personal project for some years now. Gabby was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome late in life and he documented his personal journey in an amazingly personal and creative comicbook, his debut project "My Life As A Comic Book."

If you're in the Pasig area, drop by and check out his DEPUTY DODGERS: The Ulstarn Saga.

More on Gabby and his first comicbook here.

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