Ikabod Bubwit

Ikabod Bubwit (literally "Ikabod the Small Rodent", "Ikabod the Small Rat", or "Ikabod the Mouse") is one of the most noteworthy^[1] and most memorable^[2] comic book, comic strip, and cartoon^[3] characters created by Nonoy Marcelo, one of the foremost cartoonists in the Philippines.^[2][3] Ikabod Bubwit himself is considered as the most famous mouse character created by Marcelo.^[4] As the title character in the comic strip Ikabod, Ikabod Bubwit was the humorous representation of the socio-political woes of ordinary Filipinos. The comic strip was used at times by Marcelo to reference and portray Filipino political figures, including Ferdinand Marcos, Cory Aquino, Joseph Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.^[3] Marcelo depicted Ikabod Bubwit as an “irreverent mouse” with “funny antics” who lived in Dagalandia (literally "Mouseland" or "Ratland").^[1][5] Ikabod's hometown, Dagalandia, was described as a “recast” of “the Philippines as a nation”^[4] with “an apt mirror image for the turbulent setting of the Philippines” during the present and in the past.^[2] The satirical comic strip about Ikabod Bubwit ran from the late 1970s through 2002.^[4]