Francisco Coching served as both illustrator and writer for his comic book stories, Coching is referred to as the "King of Komiks", and as the "Dean of Philippine Comics".
10 Facts About Francisco Coching
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Francisco Coching was the son of Gregorio Coching, a Filipino novelist in the Tagalog-language magazine Liwayway.
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Francisco Coching was unable to finish his studies in order to be an illustrator for Liwayway under the apprenticeship of Tony Velasquez.
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In 1934, at the age of fifteen, Francisco Coching created Bing Bigotilyo.
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Francisco Coching became a guerrillero for the Kamagong Unit of the Hunters-ROTC resistance organization.
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Francisco Coching died at age 78 on September 1,1998.
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In 1981, Francisco Coching obtained the Makasining na Komiks Award in the Tanging Parangal for Comics Art from the Manila Commission of Arts and Culture.
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In 1984, Francisco Coching received the Komiks Operation Brotherhood Inc Life Achievement Award.
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Francisco Coching received the nomination as a National Artist of the Philippines for the Visual Arts in 1999 and in 2001.
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On June 20,2014, Francisco Coching was posthumously named as a National Artist for the Visual Arts by virtue of Proclamation No 808, series of 2014.