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All All. Sign In. Francisco Vicente Coching. Francisco V. He dedicated his life to his family and to the art of writing and illustrating comics novels for four decades.

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Mostly a self-taught artist, Coching started with pen-and-ink drawings and later graduated to storytelling, via comics illustrations. His father was a novelist for a magazine, and Coching apprenticed under him at first. Under the tutelage of the acclaimed Tony Velasquez , creator of the "Kenkoy" series, Coching's first serious work was "Bing Bigotilyo," created in In Coching met and married Filomena Navales, who became not just his wife but his lifetime assistant.

Coching's seventh creation was "Hagibis," which he created from Loosely inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs ' "Tarzan," "Hagibis" proved to be so popular it was made into a film with 'Fernando Poe Sr' Hagibis and Coching followed it up with several sequels. From "Hagibis" through "Pedro Penduko" in to "Thor" in , "Tiagong Lundag" in and "El Vibora" in , Coching churned out endless sagas of romance and adventure, of heroic exploits and mighty deeds that fed the popular imagination of the Filipino reader and movie-going audience.

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Coching was very prolific, credited with approximately 60 titles, and his works covered many genres: mystery, fantasy, romance, adventure, mythology, folklore, horror, biography, sex, drama and comedy, for example. Coching died in , and his wife and children gave him a tribute at the Pasig Museum Pasig City , where huge movie posters of Coching-written films and studio stills from LVN Pictures, Sampaguita Studios and Premiere Productions adorned the museum.

The lead stars of his works-turned-movies, like Vic Vargas and Cesar Ramirez , attended the tribute.