Nonoy Marcelo
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Severino "Nonoy" Marcelo was born on 22 January 1942 in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines. A renowned Filipino cartoonist, Marcelo was best known for creating the character Ikabod Bubwit ("small rodent" in Tagalog), star of the comic strip Ikabod. He also created the comic strips Plain Folks and Tisoy.
Plain Folks appeared in the Daily Mirror during the early 1960s.
In 1963, Marcelo created the daily strip Tisoy for The Manila Times, about the lifestyle of young Filipinos. His main character, Tisoy (slang for "mestizo"), and cast members such as Aling Otik, Maribubut, Caligula, Tatang, and Tikyo, soon became established in Philippine pop culture.
Tisoy became a 1977 film directed by Ishmael Bernal and starring Christopher de Leon and Charo Santos.
Ikabod ran from the late 1970s to 2002. It was a satirical strip that re-cast the Philippines as a nation called Dagalandia. The strip humorously depicted the socio-political woes of ordinary Filipinos, as respresented by the tailless Everymouse hero, Ikabod -- who became as iconic in his own way as that other popular cartoon rodent, Mickey Mouse. Marcelo often used the strip to caricature political figures from Ferdinand Marcos and Cory Aquino to Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, re-imagining them as mice.
In 1985, Marcelo was given the Catholic Mass Media Award for print journalism, a category usually given to reporters or columnists. In 1998, Marcelo received the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Centennial Artist Award, the only cartoonist so honored.
He died in Manila on October 22 2002 at the age of sixty-two, of sepsis due to complications from diabetes.
