Ikabod Bubwit (literally "Ikabod the Small Rodent", "Ikabod the Small Rat", or "Ikabod the Mouse") is one of the most noteworthy
[ and most memorable][ ]comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. ...
, comic strip, and cartoon
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[ characters created in the 1980s by Nonoy Marcelo, one of the foremost cartoonists in the Philippines.][Nonoy (1940 - 2002)]
, wittyworld.com[ Ikabod Bubwit himself is considered as the most famous mouse character created by Marcelo.][ In the comic strip ''Ikabod'', Ikabod Bubwit was the representation of the humorous illustration of the socio-political woes of ordinary Filipinos, and the comic strip itself was used at times by Marcelo in re-imagining and portraying Filipino political figures, including ]Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. ( , , ; September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martia ...
, Cory Aquino
Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People ...
, Joseph Estrada
Joseph Ejercito Estrada, (; born Jose Marcelo Ejercito; April 19, 1937), also known by the nickname Erap, is a Filipino politician and former actor. He served as the 13th president of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, the 9th vice presi ...
, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal Arroyo (, born April 5, 1947), often referred to by her initials GMA, is a Filipino academic and politician serving as one of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House Deputy Spe ...
.[CARTOONIST Noynoy Marcelo]
abs-cbnnews.com Ikabod Bubwit was portrayed by Marcelo as an “irreverent mouse” with “funny antics” who lived in Dagalandia (literally "Mouseland" or "Ratland").[Aranda, Rene]
‘Ikabod Bubwit’ creator is dead
philstar.com, October 23, 2002[Panao, Alicor]
Ikabod's hometown, Dagalandia, was described as a “recast” of “the Philippines as a nation”[ with “an apt mirror image for the turbulent setting of the Philippines” during the present and in the past.][ The satirical comic strip about Ikabod Bubwit ran from the late 1970s through 2002.][SEVERINO "NONOY" MARCELO (1939-2002) Lifetime Achievement Awardee]
, animahenasyon.com
See also
* Barok
Barok is considered one of the most popular komiks characters in the Philippines created by Filipino cartoonist Bert Sarile in 1973. It also means Sillano. A stone-age Philippine comic book character, Barok was described by Sarile as a lead charac ...
* List of fictional mice and rats
References
Filipino comics characters
Fictional Filipino people
Fictional mice and rats
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