Barok is considered one of the most popular
Comic
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characters in the
Philippines
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, , It was created by Filipino cartoonist Bert Sarile in 1973. It also means Sillano. A
stone-age
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Philippine comic book character, Barok was described by Sarile as a lead character and one of the equivalents in the Philippine comic book industry of the American cartoon characters in
The Flintstones
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[ Barok was illustrated in komiks by Sarile as a “pre-historic ]caveman
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” who carried a “large spiked club
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Comic book version
Barok was featured weekly in the pages of ''Hiwaga Komiks''. Conceived by Bert Sarile as a character of ethnic background that mirrored the “Filipino foibles in a primitive-age setting”, Barok was the more contemporary substitute to ''Bondying
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'', a postwar Filipino comic book character. Barok was the first character in the Philippines that was created within a stone-age setting.[
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Film version
Later on, Barok had been featured in three Philippine films.[ A 1979 version of the film starred Filipino actor and comedian Chiquito as Barok.][Barok]
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Eddie Romero's ''Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon'' received most of the awards with a total of six including the Best Fi ...
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Book version
Barok was one of the few Filipino comic book series or comic strip
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s that was compiled and published in book format. The 130-page, digest size
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, and black-and-white
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book version[ of Barok was published in 2004 by Pacyno Publishing, Co, Inc. and was distributed by ]National Book Store
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See also
* Ikabod Bubwit
References
Fictional Filipino people
Philippine comics titles
Philippine comic strips
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Comics characters introduced in 1973
Fictional prehistoric characters
Comics set in the Stone Age
Humor comics
Male characters in comics
Philippine comics adapted into films
Filipino comics characters
Cavemen
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