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Carlo loved to put lines together as a kid. He discovered that this was called "drawing." He drew and drew and drew, making comics in old notebooks.

After an attempt to create a comics series after college, he took to the corporate world and tried his hand in theater acting. But he wanted to make comics so much. So in 2001, he self-published One Night In Purgatory, a short, slightly melodramatic tale about… well… two guys in love.

The following year, he turned to superhero comedy with The Spectacular Adventures of Zsazsa Zaturnnah, (title translated from Filipino). It's about a gay beautician who becomes a superhero. That graphic novel won a National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle. In February 2006, Philippine theater company Tanghalang Pilipino developed and staged an original musical based on the graphic novel. People liked the show so much that it was later restaged in April and June, and again this January 2007. The feature film adaptation was released on Christmas Day as part of the annual Metro Manila Film Festival. (It didn't fare too well, though. Fans of the book found fault in the film's execution.)

He just finished artwork for the story The Mysteries of Udolpho in the anthology Graphic Classics: Gothic Tales, scheduled for release in early 2007. Prior to that, he illustrated the story Captain Blood for Graphic Classics: Rafael Sabatini, which was released in February 2006.

He's planning his next grafiction work while fulfilling his duties as an art director for a home decor and interior design magazine. He doesn't know spit about interior design, but he still likes to draw and draw and draw.

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