On September 2020, Ablaze Publishing released the international edition of Trese: Murder on Balete Drive on print and digital platforms (such as Comixology, Izneo, etc), with redrawn artwork by Baldisimo, additional story panels, pages and dialogue, and bonus content such as Prof. On October 2013, the book was collected together with the Trese: Unreported Murders and Trese: Mass Murders into a hardcover omnibus entitled Trese: Book of Murders, with digitally updated artwork and other bonus content. Trese: Murder on Balete Drive was first published in March 2008 by Visual Print Enterprises under the Alamat Comics Imprint, collecting the first four cases previously published in ashcan format in 2005.

Exhibit 13 sketchbook section with notes by Budjette Tan featuring early design sketches of the main and supporting cast.

It is an anthology of short, self-contained stories where Alexandra Trese and the Kambal are enlisted by Captain Guerrero in solving murders and crimes linked to the supernatural.Īside from the four cases, the book also contains the following: It contains the first four Trese cases written by Budjette Tan and drawn by Kajo Baldisimo. Trese: Murder on Balete Drive (stylized as TRESE: Murder on Balete Drive) is the first book in the main Trese series. When crime takes up a turn for the weird, the police call Alexandra Trese.' 'When the sun sets in the city of Manila, don't you dare make a wrong turn and end up in that dimly-lit side of the metro, where aswang run the most-wanted kidnapping rings, where kapre are the kingpins of crime, and engkantos slip through the cracks and steal your most precious possessions.

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