New Icons Up to date Roster
Carmina: Beginnings Cowl Illustrated by Roland Amago, Mayari Lei and Detective Rojas Illustrated by Kian Joshua.
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Rising highly effective heroines spherical up the Diwata Komiks New Icons roster.
— Mark Nazal, New Icons creator and Diwata Komiks Chief Inventive
LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, Could 3, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Diwata Komiks is a diversity-focused, Filipino-American-founded indie comics firm devoted to telling tales from their multicultural heritage. Comprised of a small staff of multi-generational creatives from vastly totally different backgrounds, they supply a platform for his or her neighborhood to inform new tales with genuine voices via comics and extra. To have fun AAPI Heritage Month, Diwata Komiks declares that audiences will get to expertise much more distinctive voices as two highly effective new heroines, Mayari Lei and Detective Rojas, might be becoming a member of the roster in New Icons Quantity 1 – the very first Filipino-American comics anthology slated for a possible fall 2024 launch.
Diwata Komiks arrived on the scene with the Carmina sequence in late 2021, and these two characters additional equalize their New Icons roster with an expanded feminine presence. “The ladies are a number of the strongest characters in our comics universe, like Carmina herself, who began all of it for us,” Co-Founder and Carmina Co-Creator Erica Juliet says.
Like the opposite Icons, what makes these two new characters distinctive is that they’re loosely based mostly on their creators – on a regular basis individuals who have their very own lived-in experiences, including authenticity to the tales inside… with fantastical twists, after all! For instance, Mayari Lei based mostly on creator and Navy veteran Mayari Acidera, is a girl who finds herself on the World Commerce Middle twin towers throughout the 9/11 assault and is saved by the activation of her latent potential to create gentle portals. As she discovered herself falling via the crumbling construction, she unwittingly created and fell via a portal to a different actuality, taking her to a world the place colonization is a international idea and the current time is characterised by tribal warfare. She involves the “SurrealArts Universe” with no reminiscence of her previous whereas discovering her rising light-based talents in addition to different distinctive powers. When she’s not creating this type of fictional journey, the true Mayari [Acidera] is a little bit of a hero herself, helping veterans at Recon Chief, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit group for veterans to obtain assist from different veterans with their skilled and private growth, whereas sustaining the deal with enhancing psychological well being.
Arleen Bocatija Rojas is a real-life former LAPD officer with a powerful regulation enforcement file who now serves as a council member for the Metropolis of Carson. She is an energetic 31-year veteran Police Officer for the Metropolis of Los Angeles and holds the title of the First Feminine Filipino-American Police Officer within the historical past of the division. Her New Icons character, Detective Rojas, is an officer turned detective from the fictional South Century Metropolis identified for her uncanny potential to foresee options to a number of the most difficult instances, oftentimes fixing them by herself with out backup. Unknown to most, she possesses a household heirloom, an Anting-Anting (a Filipino attraction) which she retains pinned in her hair, that intensely magnifies her pure present of “2nd sight.” The artifact’s energy permits her to sense hazard and see moments into the fast future thereby successfully slowing down and freezing time for her. This permits her to uniquely react prematurely to precarious conditions and aids her to find these in want.
To have fun the announcement of her character, Councilwoman Arleen Bocatilja Rojas might be making a particular look on the Teofilo Espresso Firm in Los Alamitos, California (USA) at a Diwata Komiks pop-up occasion on Saturday, Could 11 from 11 AM – 2 PM. At this milestone occasion, followers could have the chance to acquire a Particular Version Quartz Shimmer Character Card and get it signed by the councilwoman herself with artist, Kian Joshua!
Mayari Lei and Detective Rojas are however a number of of the New Icons that might be showing on this comics anthology, because the e book will function the wealthy experiences of people in a heightened, fictionalized atmosphere that makes them icons in their very own proper.
“I’m actually happy with this undertaking that reveals how various we’re – particularly necessary for a gaggle of individuals underrepresented within the mainstream media,” New Icons creator and Diwata Komiks Chief Inventive Mark Nazal says. Co-Founder and Director of Group, Joe Arciaga provides that “illustration actually does matter” citing his personal pleasure for the undertaking and what it means for the Filipino-American neighborhood.
Be taught extra about Diwata Komiks and the New Icons undertaking at diwatakomiks.com/newicons.
D.R. Martinez
SurrealArts LLC
data@diwatakomiks.com
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