The best way to support the artist is to buy the physical books directly. Medina ships via courier (LBC/2GO) across the Philippines. However, he also sells —but careful, they are not standard PDFs. He has experimented with encrypted EPUB files and proprietary app-based readers. Check his "Shop" section regularly.
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For over three decades, the sprawling, weighty collective known as Pugad Baboy (Swine’s Nest) has served as a distorted mirror to Filipino society. Created by Apolonio "Pol" Medina Jr., the comic strip began as a humble serial in the Philippine Daily Inquirer in 1988, eventually blossoming into a cultural institution. In the modern era, the proliferation of Pugad Baboy comics in PDF format—a medium never intended by the artist but embraced by the readership—has fundamentally altered the way the work is consumed, preserved, and understood. To read Pugad Baboy today, often through the glow of a tablet or monitor, is to engage in a deep archaeological dig into the Filipino psyche, layering the absurdity of the narrative with the meta-textual reality of its digital survival. The best way to support the artist is