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Announcement:
Every first Saturday of May is
Free Comic Book Day! But what is it? Check out the video below:
I'll be at
Comic Odyssey's Free Comic Book Day Event in
Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street, BGC, Taguig City, Philippines from 8AM-12PM, May 3, 2014
! Check out the stellar list of comic writers and artists who will be at this enormous event!
1. AARON FELIZMENIO
2. AJ BERNARDO
3. ALLEN GENETA
4. AMOS VILLAR
5. ANDREW VILLAR
6. ARIEL ATIENZA
7. BENJAMIN BARTOLOME
8. BERNCE LLAMO
9. ...
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April Fools! Once again Aimee plays a gag on Rianne on April 1st!
And it's true, behind the serious and caring side of doctors lies a joker. Or at least someone who loves (and quite often really needs) laughter. There's a dark side to the medical practice that I purposely shy away from in this comic strip series. At the very least, being in the funny pages (Plug! Buy the
Manila Bulletin!), it would be counterproductive for
Callous to go down that road. I guess I sometimes touch that stu...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, March 24, 2014,
Certifying the Truth
Personally, I haven't had the experience of someone asking me to make up some medical certification of an illness so that they may have an excused absence from school or work. But I've seen it happen.
However, the tough part is when you know they're telling the truth but due to their illness they were unable to see you while they were sick. Medical Certifications only account for what the signing physician actually saw and examined. A consultation after a period of ...
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Give it to me straight... but not that straight!
While in training to become a doctor or a specialist, one has the "license" to make mistakes. It is the same as in any field of expertise, while you're in training you can make errors and learn from them because you have your mentors looking after you. Because when all the training is done and you find yourself managing multiple patients on your own there would be no more room for error.
There are many kinds of mentors and I was fortuna...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, March 9, 2014,
Determination!
Mondays. It affects us all. :)
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, March 4, 2014,
The White Coat
I remember the days when I was a struggling med student and was longing for the day I could wear one of those long white coats that billowed about as I storm through the hospital hallways like my mentors' would. That day did eventually arrive and I quickly realized what it meant to wear a coat, any coat, in a tropical country like mine. It was hot and uncomfortable! After only a few days of wearing it proudly I found it to be more of a nuisance than anything else. It wou...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, March 3, 2014,
Flowers for you!
This was actually supposed to be my Valentine's Day strip for 2014 but I was particularly busy during that time so I was unable to submit this to the Manila Bulletin before its intended print date. But it was inked and scanned so I had to come up with a completely new set of dialogue. Like a "Caption This!" contest only I was the sole contestant.
It turned out to be a bit fun and the overall theme of doing something nice and platonic remained.
I did actually do thi...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, March 2, 2014,
What's in a name? A lot, apparently. I won't go on about the
difference between Rubella and Rubeola (you know, the "regular" measles) as you'll find them well differentiated in other websites. Hit the link if you're interested!
I've always found the nomenclature of medical maladies interesting. When I was in med school I always wondered about such supposedly trivial things.
So
why is German Measles "German"? To make a long story short, a German physician first described it and thu...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Wednesday, February 26, 2014,
A Positive Twist
We were taught pretty early on that as doctors we need to gain patients' trust to get the best and most relevant information out of them in order to help them appropriately. It seemed easy enough at first but after a few patients one begins to realize just how difficult it can be sometimes. No two patients are the same. I've gone as far as acting like a clown to get a patient to like me (not that it wasn't fun, because it was).
Of course, every now and then we have t...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, February 25, 2014,
Audible Delight
Back when I considered myself a coffee connoisseur of sorts, I learned that the proper way of drinking coffee is to slurp it. It's apparently to mix in some air with your coffee so that you may taste the aroma as well. However, I did find it a bit, I don't know... rude? Nevertheless, it's not uncommon to hear the luscious slurping of coffee. Bonus points for the ecstatic "AAAAAHHHHHHH!" afterwards.
The same seems to be true when enjoying a hot bowl of ramen or udon n...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, February 24, 2014,
Back in med school, I wondered a lot about the words we use to instruct our patients. "Take"! "Instill"! "Reconstitute!" As if doctor's instructions weren't confusing enough. Fortunately, I have yet to encounter a patient who misunderstood my instructions enough to become a pharmacy thief.
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, February 20, 2014,
Back when I was a clinical intern, a required extra year of clinical rotations before taking the physician's licensure examination, I used to think of lunchtime as a nice break from the stress within the wards.
As an intern in the hospital I was matched to, I wasn't receiving any pay, but I did get three free meals a day! So if we weren't needed anywhere, my fellow interns and I along with the hospital staff would troop on over to the mess hall to get our free grub. Perks of working ...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, February 18, 2014,
Post #900!
Hey everyone! So this is post number 900! It's hard for me to wrap my head around that number but I do remind myself that it isn't all that big when it comes to daily comic strips. Nevertheless, a milestone's a milestone so here we are!
I'd like to talk a bit about today's comic strip. In medicine, we spend years and years training and working to advance ourselves in our careers and to become better doctors. By the time we find ourselves just about ready to take the worl...
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Last night I was delighted to receive the following guest art for the 17th Anniversary of
Callous celebration!
Dr. Rianne Nicah and Cal Duck by Michelle Soneja
This absolutely gorgeous guest artwork is by Michelle "Shelly" Soneja, one of the artists of
Robot with a Smile, a studio which provides artistic services for video games, illustrations, comics, and the like! I love that she took some liberties with Cal Duck's relative size to Rianne, to very cute effect! I admittedly haven't been ...
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Some more guest art today! It's time the main Guardian Duck got some love...
Cal Duck by Liz Staley
I've been reading Liz's mecha comic,
Adrastus, pretty much since it began. Since then we've done a few guest art pieces for each other and it's always been so much fun! How often to I get to draw giant mecha?! Click the link to check out her awesome comic (it's about giant mystical mecha!) and do follow her on
Twitter and "Like" the
Adrastus Page on Facebook!
Cal Duck by Kurt Sasso
Kurt,...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, August 8, 2013,
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Wednesday, August 7, 2013,
Hey everyone!
Welcome to the afterparty! I received even more guest art and comic strips so the celebration of
Callous' 17th anniversary continues! Check out what our guests have in store today!
By Gio Guiao Jr.
"How you doin'?" Artists who are active in the webcomic community in my region of the world are pretty few and far between. But it's always nice to meet someone in my own country who's also in this nutty webcomic world! Gio Guiao does
Lakan at Makisig, one of the insane webco...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, August 5, 2013,
Hi everyone!
We're just one day away from
Callous' 17th anniversary and the guest comic/art bonanza continues!
Today we have a couple of guests from the webcomic world!
Guest comic strip by Jim Haas
First we have a comic strip from the talented guy who brings us
Nate the Robot, Jim Haas!
Nate the Robot is a story about a robot trying to make it in a human world. Click the link to check out Nate's adventures! Give Nate a like over at his
page on Facebook and
follow him on Twitter to...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, August 2, 2013,
Hey everyone!
As we continue our countdown to August 7, 2013 (which is
Callous' 17th anniversary) I'll be featuring guest art below the regular comic strips! Let's see what awesomeness awaits us today!
Dr. Rianne Nicah by Ronzkie Pacho Vidal
This absolutely stunning rendition of Rianne is by the amazing Ronzkie Pacho Vidal of
Ikos Komiks! I get floored every time I see her work online and I was just delighted to receive this piece! Her self-published comic books are also some of the m...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, July 28, 2013,
August 7, 2013 is
Callous' 17th Anniversary! I'm opening the site up to guest comics and/or art to help promote other artists and comics! If you're interested in being featured, click
HERE for details!
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, July 18, 2013,
August 7, 2013 is
Callous' 17th Anniversary! I'm opening the site up to guest comics and/or art to help promote other artists and comics! If you're interested in being featured, click
HERE for details!
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, July 16, 2013,
I actually had a lot of difficulty translating this comic strip to English from the original Filipino dialogue. The following is the strip I submitted for the newspapers, I hope I did a decent job!
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Thanks to Wendy Wood (
Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit) for the onomatopoeia help in this comic strip!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, April 30, 2013,
Traditional medicine is not inherently bad, in fact some have been scientifically proven to be beneficial in certain ailments. For more information, do read this
fact sheet on traditional medicine by the
World Health Organization (WHO).
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Seriously, for more information on the potential virus-fighting capabilities of beer, click
HERE.
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Two Psychiatry gags in a row?! Today we're back in Dr. Julius' clinic as the staff continues to undergo its psychiatric evaluation, this time with Dr. Sally Bloemfontein!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, May 20, 2012,
Hey everyone!
I hope you all had a great weekend!
The next few strips will focus on some of the secondary characters of the
Callous comic series, like Dr. Tiger Kaiserslautern and Dr. Julius here. Rianne may still pop up every now and then but it'll be fun to explore the great characters around her!
Also, my other webcomic,
M.O.U.S.E. - Multiple Ordnance and Utlility Synthetic Entity, launches today! I'm the writer while
Pilar Esber does the art! Please do check it out at
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, May 18, 2012,
Hey everyone! Here's a bonus comic strip for today! :D
Looks like another year has passed and it's
Dialogue Free Comics Day once more! Organized annually by
Noel Curry, he explains "Dialogue Free Comics Day" as follows:
"Too often, when writing webcomics I forget that this is
primarily a visual artform and so to emphasise that, I’ve set myself the challenge of posting a dialogue free comic on that day..."
I've contributed every year so far and yet it's still hard to kick the...
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Did you know?
The device Dr. Rianne Nicah is using to correct errors of refraction in a patient's vision (e.g. near or far-sightedness) is called a "Phoropter"!
The chart a patient looks at with lines of seemingly random letters is called a "Snellen's Chart".
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This is the start of the
Regret storyline!
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Author's note: If for whatever tragic reason you do not recognize the device depicted in the second panel, well, it's a weighing scale! Continue reading ...
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Originally posted in http://www.mylifeinthetrenches.com. Re-published here with permission.
This hilarious comic strip is by T. Andrew Dempsey, the heart and soul of the webcomic,
My Life in the Trenches!
Tim asked me if he could have Rianne guest in his comic as a doctor again, and I was more than happy to oblige! Tim is one artist I know who
gets the good doctor. In this comic, it particularly shows in her prolonged interjection, "Dear Mother-of-Pearl!"
I don't know if anyone ha...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, November 7, 2011,
This comic page was my contribution to the
Indies Maximus anthology/sampler comic book given out last Free Comic Book Day. It's significant in several ways. One of the most striking is the fact that it's a longform page, something I'm not used to doing. It's also a return to Black & White, as the book was printed as such. Furthermore, the panels were hand-drawn! In a way, all the back-to-basics was a welcome change from the ever-growing digital aspect of the production of
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This is part of the storyline, "On Lighter Dreams"! Click
HERE to start from the beginning then click, "Next Post" to proceed!
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This is part of the storyline "On Lighter Dreams"! Click
HERE to start from the beginning then click "Next Post" to proceed!
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This is part of the storyline, "On Lighter Dreams"! Click
HERE to start from the beginning then click "Next Post" to proceed!
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This comic strip was co-written by Jess Warren, the amazing talent behind "
Borked Planet" and "
Smellabell"!
Follow her on Twitter! (
@borkedplanet)
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BONUS: View the original linework for this comic strip by clicking
HERE! Then view the colored comic minus word balloons
HERE!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, April 1, 2011,
This comic strip is for 2011's
April Fool's Day and features Desmon and Violet from
Plus One by Dustin Reese!
It is apparently popular among cartoonists to do an
April Fool's Day Comic Strip Switcheroo / Switcheroonie. Last year I did
one with
roxxiiee who does the comic,
Afrodite. I had planned to organize a pretty grand one for 2011 but unfortunately it completely slipped my mind.
I only got reminded of the occasion at the non-recorded tail end of an
episode of the
TGT Webcomics podcast I c...
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This guest comic is by Teddy Pavon, artist of the online comic series,
Work in Progress!
I first met Teddy during the
2010 Metro Comic Con, where he and
Work in Progress writer, Hub Pacheco, were going around the event floor handing out free copies of their series' introductory chapter. I once again met the duo at
Komikon 2010 when they released the printed first chapter of their comic (which I was fortunate to get a copy of as I heard they sold out fast).
Work in Progress is the story of Eli,...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Wednesday, December 29, 2010,
Ernest John Daryll Fiestan, author of the splendidly rendered
Crazy Metro comic strip series, has produced several guest comics for
Callous Comics in the past. Check them out
HERE,
HERE,
HERE, and
HERE! He even made
THIS fantastic piece for the 2010 Holiday season!
Crazy Metro has a nice set of characters and I figured I would try my hand at making a crossover comic as well! I gave Ernest this comic strip several days ago but he insisted it appear here before he posts it anywhere else.
This ...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, December 19, 2010,
This is my last
Callous comic strip for 2010! I'll be back to updating daily on January 10, 2011!
Happy Holidays to all of you!
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Beginning the Halloween season for
Callous is this guest cartoon by Dustin Reese, who writes and illustrates the excellent comic series,
Plus One! Considering this particular patient load, I'm surprised the ER staff is so well-composed!
Dustin has done several guest work for
Callous in the past. Check out his previous contributions
HERE and
HERE!
Be sure to read his sprawling pregnancy-to-parenting adventure series,
Plus One!
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This guest cartoon is by Katherine Curtis, the great talent behind the brilliant comic series,
Our Perfect World! Once again, Katherine has been gracious enough to lend her quirky humor and delightful art to
Callous comics! She has done two guest spots in the past (Click
HERE and
HERE to see them)!
Our Perfect World is a comic about how our world isn’t perfect (ironic,
isn’t it?). It follows the life of Kat, a young adult attempting to
discover what happiness is. With her friends and ...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Wednesday, September 22, 2010,
Callous will be going on break! Click
HERE for details on the rest of 2010, guest comic/art drive, and event appearances!
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This guest comic strip is by the talented Cátia Ana da Silva from Brazil! She is the writer and artist of
O Diário de Virgínia! I wonder about how effective this form of anesthetic would be... but it sure seems to be working for Virginia!
O Diário de Virgínia is a gorgeously illustrated online story written in Portuguese. It features Virginia and the fantastic and sometimes nonsensical world written within her diary! Cátia Ana describes Virginia as a poor girl who has lost her way, a...
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This brilliant
Callous guest comic strip is by
Supe and Indy's Shawn Williams! I can imagine how flabbergasted Rianne must have been after this but I admit that I can't stand waiting rooms too!
Supe and Indy is a monthly comic series published in
Comics Buyer's Guide! It features Supe, a famous retired Super-Hero, and Indy, an
underappreciated everyman! Check out their amazing (and hilarious) misadventures in Shawn's blog! Supe and Indy is by Blayne Belter and Shawn Williams and you can f...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, May 17, 2010,
Our Perfect World's Katherine Curtis was gracious enough to make another guest comic strip for
Callous! Thank you so much! Ah, those auto-correcting T9 dictionaries and other spell checking software on celphones are great texting aids... when they're on!
Our Perfect World also participated in May 14's Dialogue Free Comics Day! Click on the following link to check it and the other participating comics (including
Callous) out!
Dialogue Free Comics Day Website And of course, click on the foll...
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Today's guest comic is by Katherine Curtis, the great talent behind
Our Perfect World comics! I wonder what incredible awesomeness Rianne's patient went through? Guess I'll have to search for the viral video...
Our Perfect World is a comic about how our world isn’t perfect (ironic,
isn’t it?). It follows the life of Kat, a young adult attempting to
discover what happiness is. With her friends and family by her side, the comic
explores the small things that make life epically hilariou...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, May 7, 2010,
Today's
Callous guest comic strip is by T. Andrew Dempsey, the fantastic talent behind the great online comic strip series,
My Life in the Trenches! I think he did a great job capturing the humor of
Callous, particularly when it comes to Rianne's clinic setting! Thanks Timothy!
Read more of Timothy's work in
My Life in the Trenches, a brilliant series featuring Tom and Tara as they venture through life and the many facets of it's glorious ennui!
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This
Callous comic strip features the first-ever cameo appearance of a character from another comic series! Seen here is Afrodite from the incredibly entertaining
afrodite by roxxiiee! See more of this sassy queen of spunk as she lives through life with her friends and/or frenemies! Just click on the link below!
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Part 2 of 2
The March 1, 2010
Callous comic strip, "Ward Rounds 2" is co-written by
George Ford!
George writes and illustrates the hilarious comic strip, "
Addanac City"! Click
here to check out this wonderful series!
The "Ward Rounds" storyline is discussed in the
blog. Read the entry
here.
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Back from the break!
Here we have a new comic strip size, more akin to the standard dimensions.
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This strip was inspired by a song. "A la Ciotat" by Moussu T e lei Jovents
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January 10, 2010 - Edited the grammatical error.
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, December 31, 2009,
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, December 31, 2009,
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Wednesday, December 30, 2009,
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Saturday, December 26, 2009,
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Saturday, December 26, 2009,
Originally published on September 9, 2009.
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Saturday, December 26, 2009,
Originally published on September 5, 2009.
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All Callous comic strips are
written and illustrated by Carlo Jose San Juan unless otherwise
specified. Lettering by Carlo Jose S. San Juan, MD and Phil Elliott 
