Comics Signing Event | Whilce Portacio

Comic Book signings have been the norm when a local comic shop organizes a signing event it promotes the artist, the book he/she is currently working on at the same time promoting the comic shop that hosted it. But back in the day, there was no such thing as a comic book signing until the original Filbar’s had one and brought in an artist who did a book for Marvel. That guy was Whilce Portacio, and it was sometime between December 1991 that he came to visit the country for the first time to spend and reconnect with relatives in Manila. The rising career of Whilce Portacio at that time he was doing work for Uncanny X-Men starting with issue 281 as part of the X-Genesis launch of X-Titles.