Author Biography

David Hontiveros is the Palanca Award-winning and National Book Award-nominated writer of the horror/dark fantasy novellas Craving, Parman, and Takod, and the Seroks science fiction collections (Iteration 1: Mirror Man and Iteration 2: Once in a Lifetime). A sample of his short fiction (“Balat, Buwan, Ngalan”) can be found in the anthology Alternative Alamat. His short comic book work can be found in Summit’s Underpass (“Judas Kiss” and “Katumbas”) and Graphic Classics. One of the original co-founders of Alamat, he is currently working with a host of mighty fine artists on the comic books Bathala: Apokalypsis and the titles collectively known as The ’Verse: Agyu, Kadasig, Tatsulok, Uriel, and Dakila (which will be celebrating its 5th anniversary later this year). He once heard that the gum he likes would come back in style. And more than a quarter of a century later, it did. More of his babbling can be found at: fiveleggediguana.blogspot.com

Budjette Tan is an ad man by day and a comic book man by night. He is the author of Trese, a series of urban fantasy graphic novels co-created with Kajo Baldisimo. He is also the co-author of Mikey Recio and The Secret of The Demon Dungeon, co-created with Bow Guerrero and JB Tapia. There are unconfi rmed reports that he’s been spotted in a small town in Denmark, where he’s trying to build a dimensional portal using plastic bricks.

Mervin Malonzo wrote and drew the National Book Award-winning aswang comic Tabi Po, which was also turned into a TV series in 2017. He also collaborated with other writers, including Adam David on a comic adaptation of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo entitled Ang Subersibo and Eliza Victoria for the graphic novel After Lambana. Other recent collaborations include Shake, Rattle And Roll and Terrorium. He manages an indie publishing effort called Haliya publishing with his wife and closest friends. He graduated magna cum laude in UP College of Fine Arts. When he is not creating comics, he is playing with his 2-year old son.