Frank A. Baldevarona: How did you get involved
in the "Good and Evil" project?
Danny Bulanadi: I met with a missionary who
asked me to draw small leaflets to give out to people. He asked me to draw about the Philippine settings like jeepneys, buildings,
because the missionaries would go there.
The story was about a boy who learned about Jesus Christ from
the pamphlet. I accepted the project having been from the philippines. After it was done, the person liked the art.
He liked the way I drew Philippine life accurately.
After he came back from missionary work in the Philippines,
which included distributing the story I drew, he went back to Tennessee. Michael Pearl, the pastor of No Greater Joy Ministries,
saw the artwork. And asked to meet me. I received a phone call and flew out to Tennessee with the missionary to meet Michael
Pearl.
Michael said that he had been praying to find an artist to
realize his vision of translating the Bible into comic book format. He said that I was the answer. We met more of the congregation,
and planned what we would do with the book.
When I returned to San Francisco, I had some of the script.
Through the phone and fax, Michael sent me the rest of the script. The first few pages were faxed to Michael, who gave the
okay to proceed. That is how the "Good and Evil" project was born.
It took three years to complete all the pages. Michael's plan
was to take my inked art and add grey tone to it, then translate the script into multiple languages.
