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Even before he resigned from the Philippine Daily Inquirer as contributing cartoonist on June 7, Pol Medina Jr had been reflecting on the possibilities of new media. How would the overweight characters of his popular and long-running “Pugad Baboy” comic strip fare if they invaded cyberspace? How will it connect to a generation that’s way unfamiliar to the milieu that gave birth to this satire in the 1980s? There was then this romantic notion of caricatures and comic strips best appreciated in print. Not anymore, he told Rappler. The leisurely pace by which print could be read and the certainty of electronically accessing old material converged. If the audience has gone online, that’s where he’s thinking of moving “Pugad Baboy” too. He is aware that fans have been urging him to embrace the online medium. “The world has gone digital. Paper is being replaced by glass. Obviously the future of information is in cyberspace,” he said.
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