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  ASWANG HIGH skillfully weaves horror, humor, and the pains of growing up into its fabric, presenting a unique twist on the high school experience... it's a journey of friendship, identity, and courage in the face of the utterly unknown.   thanks so much to Hot Tropiks - Culture Bookstore for bringing aswang high over to the states!

  thanks pam pastor, inquirer, and paolo herras for including aswang high in this list! you can read the full article here .

 so grateful that aswang high is selling well on hot tropiks!  

 thank you again to juno reyes and rappler for including aswang high in this list!

  i was invited by komiket to read an excerpt from aswang high at this year's MIBF, only the biggest publishing event in the land... jay ignacio was also there to read from his award-winning book, alandal , as was bambi amago, who read from her multi-award-winning doobiedoo asks . well, what i lacked in awards i made up for in animated slides!

  paskomiket 2022, aswang high, cy and me. thanks, komiket.

  want to make comics get introduced to the local komiks scene, in my case, komikon early 2000's find somewhere online to talk with other comics-minded people be friendly realize that komiks creators are just a bunch of ordinary dudes (it was mostly dudes back then) "if they can do this i can too" pirate stuff to read (had been doing this for years at this point actually) learn things online pirate stuff to draw with have a college roomate move to america and bequeath you their old pen tablet held together with scotch tape make the damn comic try not to care about it too much sell the damn comic be friendly get noticed by other komiks creators. if you can catch gerry alanguilan's eye that's a good sign consign your comic anywhere that will have it make more comics (?) get asked by some friendly comic shop owners if they can turn your first comic into a film never stop beating that particular horse get noticed by more people in positions of power (critics, editors,...

 thanks to PICOF for taking my books with them to the frankfurt book fair!  

the story pitch i submitted to komiket's first philippine international comics festival made it into the finals, and i couldn't be happier. i'll be working with the awesome cy vendivil , who generously agreed to lend his talents.

right click on image --> open link in new tab to enlarge character sketches for a story idea about a bunch of tweenage mythological creatures going to a magical high school that is nothing like hogwarts. this is waaay down the line, with so many issues of school run still to go (i pretty much have the entire plot for school run all finished in my head, just need to set it down on the page). i just wanted to call dibs on the concept, and a few specific ideas. still deciding on a working title... "lamanglupa high" "aswang academy" "my PE teacher is a tikbalang"