![]() Mervin Malonzo is the writer and artist of the award winning comic book series, Tabi Po. It has fascinated many writers and storytellers, one of which is Mervin Malonzo. Folklore described an aswang as a flesh eating, shapeshifting monsters, believed to be the product of a Spaniard’s imagination to instill fear in the hearts of the Filipinos. It doesn’t matter where you are, either in the city or in the province, if there are sudden deaths or unexplained disappearances, the aswangs are to blame. Every culture has their own folklore, each of them unique, and in the Philippines it involves the “ lamang lupa.” No amount of colonization can remove our beliefs, that there are entities, seen and unseen, lurking everywhere. The Halloween season is upon us again, monsters, ghosts, and aswangs are lurking around the corner and on rooftops looking for prey. He shares with us his history as a writer, how the idea for Tabi Po came about and what he thinks of the blossoming Komiks Industry in the country. ![]() Geekend Gladiators was able to catch the award-winning creator of the hit Komiks Series Tabi Po, Mervin Malonzo. ![]()
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