Slice of Life

Spotted: "Lakan Sining" on Pinterest, after Google Image Search, ca. 26 August 2018

Slice of Life was the last-page cartoon series of Weekend Magazine by cartoonist and illustrator Larry Alcala (Lauro Zarate Alcala), who was born on 18 August 1926. Quoted on Wikipedia: "His most popular cartoon series was Slice of Life, which is a reflection of the many unique aspects of everyday life in the Philippines. He captured the interest of his weekend patrons by giving them the task of looking for his image cleverly concealed within the weekend cartoon." (I already found him in this cartoon.)

Alcala who studied Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines also served as faculty in the College of Fine Arts. He was chairperson of the Department of Visual Communications upon his retirement. I couldn't find any background material to this work, but I'm guessing that in this episode, Alcala was reminiscing his student (or early teaching) days in UP Diliman. I still saw Fine Arts in the upper floors of the Gonzalez Hall (Main Library) on the last year it was located there.

For academic year 2015-2016, UP and three other universities in the country shifted the opening of classes to August, which synchronized with other universities overseas.

The President signed Republic Act No. 10931, or "Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act" into law on 03 August 2017, a law that guaranteed free college education in the 112 state colleges and universities.


[This post is antedated: 20180831]