Ikabod Bubwit
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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, comic strip, and cartoon characters created by Nonoy Marcelo, one of the foremost cartoonists in the Philippines.[http://www.wittyworld.com/gallery/nonoy.html Nonoy (1940 - 2002)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718071047/http://www.wittyworld.com/gallery/nonoy.html |date=July 18, 2011 }}, wittyworld.com The satirical comic strip about Ikabod Bubwit ran from the late 1970s through 2002.[http://www.animahenasyon.com/2008/48/Lifetime-Achievement-Awardees SEVERINO "NONOY" MARCELO (1939-2002) Lifetime Achievement Awardee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904022938/http://www.animahenasyon.com/2008/48/Lifetime-Achievement-Awardees|date=September 4, 2011}}, animahenasyon.com
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= Inspirations =
The comic strip was used at times by Marcelo to reference and portray Filipino political figures, including Ferdinand Marcos, Cory Aquino, Joseph Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.[http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/02/17/11/edsa-pop-25-cultural-touchpoints-revolution-4 CARTOONIST Noynoy Marcelo], abs-cbnnews.com Marcelo depicted Ikabod Bubwit as an “irreverent mouse” with “funny antics” who lived in Dagalandia (literally "Mouseland" or "Ratland").Aranda, Rene. [http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=181009&publicationSubCategoryId=63 ‘Ikabod Bubwit’ creator is dead], philstar.com, October 23, 2002Panao, Alicor. [http://www.up.edu.ph/oldforum/2002/Nov-Dec02/ptyk.html Ptyk is home] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102140958/http://www.up.edu.ph/oldforum/2002/Nov-Dec02/ptyk.html |date=January 2, 2011 }} 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.
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Category:Filipino comics characters
Category:Comics about anthropomorphic mice and rats
Category:Comics about talking animals
Category:Fictional Filipino people
Category:Male characters in comics
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