December 2010
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM TEAM BANZAI!
A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I’ve been away from posting regularly on my website for awhile, but aside from a surprise trip back to the Philippines, I’ve been keeping busy drawing a project called SILVERWOLF for a new publisher called Galaxy Graphics. Check out this splash page (TM & © 2010 Galaxy Graphics, of course). It’s not scheduled till 2012, but...
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A LITTLE JINKY UNDER THE TREE! A LITTLE JINKY...
If you don’t scroll down to the bottom of this main page, you’re missing out on a lot of new original art — sexy pinups of Banzai Girl that I’ve made over the past year, available as autographed limited edition prints for Chirtmas giving as well as original artwork for the collector among us. See below for the prints to order, and check out www.artandcomicsstore.com for...
March 2010
4 posts
ALL-NEW BANZAI GIRLS FOR 2011
I’ve gotten a lot of fan letters asking me to continue BANZAI GIRLS. I’ve been tempted to jump the characters ahead by several years so we could see how they all turned out. And you know what they say — sometimes the only way to deal with temptation is to give in to it! So I’ve come up with a brand-new foe for Banzai Girl to face, and I started everyone on a whole new...
NEW PROJECTS! NEW POSSIBILITIES!
When I drew the three-volume series of AVALON HIGH with Meg Cabot at TokyoPop, my primary reason was the chance to show I could do more than just BANZAI GIRLS. So this year I’ll be shopping around a couple of new projects that I’ve been developing. First of all, it may surprise people that I’m perfectly willing and able to do super-hero and fantasy/SF projects — but only...
MY BROTHER'S A MODEL, TOO!
Aside from being a designer and all-around Photoshop whiz, did you know that my brother Pejee is a male model now? He’s even been cast as an extra in Filipino soaps on TV! Check out his pics —
Girls, if you wanna write to him, or if you’re a client wishing to hire him, drop me an Email at banzaigirlmc@aol.com, and I’ll forward your mail to him!
FUN WITH FANS AND STAN
Here are some new pics of me with fans (and friend Mike Deodato) at the most recent Conventions…
Yup, that last one is me with Glass House Graphics’s David Campiti and the legendary Stan “The Man” Lee!
July 2009
5 posts
BANZAI GIRLS ANNUAL -- STILL AVAILABLE!
It’s sold out from the publisher, but I still have a few copies left of the newest BANZAI GIRLS ANNUAL, jam-packed with 40 pages of non-stop fun. Besides the all-new story “The Terror of…Tikbalang!”, there’s a bonus pinup gallery, plus some Banzai cartoons by the terrific Tina Francisco, plus a massive 22-page photo gallery stuffed with pics of my sister Michelle...
ROOM AND BOARDS
Sorry for the lack of recent updates here on my main page, but I’ve not been idle in the least. For starters, if you don’t check my Message Boards at least a few times per week, you’re missing A LOT of great art and conversation. In recent weeks I’ve created bunches of brand-new art that’s so far only been enjoyed by fans on the Message Board! What’s more,...
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NEW BANZAI GIRLS LIMITED EDITION PRINTS!
This is probably the biggest offering of new art prints that i’ve EVER done. In the past, my online store offered prints of a half-dozen or so poster images from my comic books. This is different. These are ALL-NEW full-color 13” x 19” prints I’ve created this month, for sale exclusively through the Jinky Coronado’s MegaMall and artandcomics.com websites....
AVALON HIGH: BOOK 3 AND MORE STORIES
As many of you are aware, I’ve been busy much the past year illustrating Meg Cabot’s third AVALON HIGH: CORONATION manga graphic novel, entitled “Hunter’s Moon.” With TokyoPop going through a bunch of editorial compressions and changes, that meant a lot of new points of view and a whole lot of revisions! Well, the revisions are finally finished, and the book is...
February 2009
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MICHELLE AND HER BABY
We’d like to say thank you to everyone who was able to contribute and who offered their condolences to Michelle and her family over losing a beloved child. At this point we’ve reached $4,500.00 — roughly the halfway point - -and we’d appreciate donations continuing, really helpful at this holiday time.
Thank you,
Mason Johnson, Webmaster
January 2009
13 posts
A HAPPY HOLIDAY TO YOU!
Hey, guys! Did you find yourself sitting around your family’s home during Christmas and wondering what Jinky was doing? Well wonder no more, not only will I tell you, but I’ll show you! She was taking pictures with her beautiful sister Michelle, that’s what.
We here at Banzai Girls hope your holiday went well, and that you have a safe new year.
~Mason the Webmaster
A FABULOUS FALL FOR JINKY!
Autumn’s pretty much upon us, but before I’m buried in Upper Ohio Valley leaves changing their colors, I’ll be buried in drawing assignments for the comicbook publishers…but I’m loving it. In case you haven’t seen it, my AVALON HIGH: Volume 2 “Homecoming” manga trade paperback from TokyoPop is now on sale in better bookstores everywhere and on...
TAKEDOWN: THE DEFUSER!
One of the many wonderful things about attending Conventions is the opportunity to meet some terrific people — and none have been more sparkling, energetic personalities than JARRETT CRIPPEN and his wife NORMA. Jarrett, of course, is the recent the second-season winner of Stan Lee’s TV series WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO? Jarrett and his wonderful wife not only do the Convention...
BANZAI GIRL'S SENIOR YEAR!
My namesake character Jinky Coronado passes into her senior year in early 2009 with the upcoming full-color BANZAI GIRLS ANNUAL, due from Arcana Studio as soon as they can squeeze it onto their schedule, written and drawn by yours truly. This extra-sized 40-pager features a brand-new adventure, “The Terror of…Tikbalang,” in which Michelle is nearly forced into marriage to a...
HEY, BABY!
You may recall, early this year my real-life sister Michelle married Rhene Principe`, and now the good news is upon us that she’s due to have a baby boy this Fall. We are majorly excited! I wish I could fly back home to the Philippines for a second time this year to be there for the birth, but that’s unlikely with my schedule. So I’ll get to see her bouncing baby boy sometime...
Banzai Girls : As seen in "SUPERHERO MOVIE"
It’s FALL, and it seems a lot of eyes are on all things Banzai! Yeah, I know I don’t appear live-action “in the flesh,” but my work still makes an appearance in the spoof SUPERHERO MOVIE, now on DVD. If you watch the multiple scenes in which the parody’s Peter Parker-type character is in his bedroom, you can very clearly see my Arcana-published BANZAI GIRLS #1 cover...
Jinky Coronado in ImagineFX Magazine
Check out the latest Issue of ImagineFX Magazine, Jinky Coronado has a feature interview on Issue 28 of ImagineFX Magazine, click the scan portion of the magazine for a short teaser. Grab the copy to know more about the interview feature.
JINKY & MICHELLE 2008
My sister visited me from the Philippines and wow, did she get a few big blasts of cold! Very used to the tropical weather of our native country, Michelle went from the usual-90 degrees-or-so temperatures to the 30 degrees-and-below temps we had in the Ohio Valley. Our hopes and palns are for Michelle to return to the USA for summertime convention season — but, in the meantime,...
BANZAI GIRLS #4
BANZAI GIRLS #4, in full color from Arcana Studio and by yours truly, is now on sale, at better comics shops everywhere. The story is entitled, “Banzai Girl 2.0!” — and it’s loaded with surprises, rampaging robot stuff, and plenty of action, action, action. Kat, Michelle, and I take on the deadly Robot from my nightmares, and you won’t believe the result. And...
Online Store Woes
I apologize for this: My Jinky Coronado’s MegaMall online store has been experiencing problems. Half the time I’m not receiving the orders, so I need to alert buyers here. My solution: Until this gets fixed, I ask that you PayPal your orders to me. You can Email me directly at BanzaiGirlsMC@aol.com and we can arrange for check or PayPal, or simply include all the info in the...
Its Totally Banzai In The Philippines!
Hi, everybody! -
A few weeks ago as I type this. I appreciate all of you who are posting on my Message Board, and I hope to see the rest of you joining in, now that my series is back in full swing. I’m typing on a Mac Mini, visiting my famliy in Iloilo, Philippines; it’s my annual trip back to see my mother Judith, my father Pepito, my sister Michelle, my brothers Pejee and Jhopet,...
BANZAI GIRLS: The New Series
Of course, the same year I’m doing AVALON HIGH is when I decided to bring back BANZAI GIRL in a new series, this time from Arcana Studio, and we decided the sequel would add an S — making it BANZAI GIRLS. The story picks up about eight months after the end of the BANZAI GIRL ANNUAL that I did for Sirius awhile back, and it chronicles “my” life since then as a pop...
BANZAI GIRLS Official Statue Now Available
It seems like years since I first designed a couple of Banzai Girl statues that I hoped to make available to my fans. One person designed a statue that is proudly displayed in my office; the original was the only one made. Later on, two other people promised to make and manufacture statues for me, but they never delivered. Enter: Pinoy artist Norman Jim Faustino, who was true to his word. ...