Nonoy Marcelo is best known for creating comic strips that lampooned lifestyles in Filipino youths including Plain Folks and Tisoy, the latter which was adapted into two films and a television series as a screenwriter.
18 Facts About Nonoy Marcelo
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Nonoy Marcelo is an animation and sound director in films.
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Nonoy Marcelo was joined by National Media Production Center to evade censorship from politics at large, learned that the government blacklisted fellow cartoonists.
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Nonoy Marcelo was born in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines on January 22,1939, to David Nonoy Marcelo, a war hero and an assistant dean of Far Eastern University and Rita Santos, an FEU English professor.
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Nonoy Marcelo once admitted in an interview with the Diliman Review, drawing was already in his veins since he was a child.
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Nonoy Marcelo created the comic strips Plain Folks, which appeared in the Daily Mirror during the early 1960s, and Tisoy in 1963 for the Manila Times, which tells about the lifestyle of young Filipinos.
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Nonoy Marcelo developed Tisoy in 1963, which lampooned Filipino lifestyles to youths.
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Nonoy Marcelo often used the strip to caricature political figures from Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino to Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, re-imagining them as mice.
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Nonoy Marcelo was collaborated again with Imee to participate the project adapted from Ferdinand's novel into an 54-minute adult animated film titled Tadhana, which originally conceived as a television pilot due to a lengthy process.
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Nonoy Marcelo was featured in Time for its cover story Mighty 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.
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In 1999, Nonoy Marcelo made his final work as an animator in Noli and Fili parts of the film.
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Nonoy Marcelo graduated the Institute of Arts and Sciences from FEU with an AB English degree.
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Nonoy Marcelo took a course in advance animation from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1971 and a filmmaking course from the New School for Social Research in 1972, soon became a cartoonist in an American magazine cover The Advocate at the same year.
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Nonoy Marcelo died at the Chinese General Hospital in Manila on October 22,2002, at the age of 63.
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Nonoy Marcelo died of sepsis due to complications from his diabetes.
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Nonoy Marcelo was survived by his five children: Dario, Sarita, Ninoy, Rajah and Jinoy; Dario was an editor and co-author of a memoir Huling Ptyk: Da Art of Nonoy Marcelo about his late father's history, collaborated with his father's friend Pandy Aviado.
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In 1998, Nonoy Marcelo received the Cultural 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.
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In 2008, Nonoy Marcelo was posthumously honored the Lifetime Achievement Award by members of Animahenasyon, an annual animation film festival in the Philippines.