We’re Paolo and Claire, independent media creators, full-time lovers, and Partners in Crimes Against Mediocrity. Since 1999, we’ve been creating and distributing a variety self-published media goodies, from zines to mini-comics (often helped by a trusty group of like-minded allies).

The stuff we publish reflects our tastes and opinions and lifestyles, as individual people. It represents the kind of brains, or wit, or honesty, or aesthetics that we like to see on the printed page.

Often, this means we pick and choose from a raw mix of influences: pop culture (both localized and cosmopolitan), art (from ‘high’ to ‘low’), book-smarts, street-smarts, and the first-hand experiences of being young(-ish) Filipinos in a time of lop-sided globalization.

Likewise, we prefer to express our ideas in a number of different formats: critique, memoir, snark, personal lit, graphics, illustrations, polemics, journalism... anything we can wrest away from the artifice of the PR hype machine, really.

This doesn’t necessarily make our work any better -- or more valid -- than what’s produced by the so-called Mainstream. But we’d like to believe it’s somehow more real. And hopefully, if you give it a chance, so will you.

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