![]() He had already found a dorm and was set on enrolling. There he was, disappointed, but ready to put his dream on hold. He did qualify for his next choice: BS Chemistry at UP Los Baños. (Photo by Misael Bacani, UP MPRO)īut Mervin didn’t make the cut. Mervin’s workspace sits on one corner of his family’s bedroom. ![]() They just told him to “do what made him happy,” so he planned to take up Fine Arts in UP Diliman (UPD) to help him achieve his dream of making comics. But even if he was the eldest of five children, his parents never expected him to be the breadwinner. Perhaps it was because he was an achiever in school who excelled in math and science that his aunt wanted him to go for a more lucrative career. That same aunt, who Mervin had thought was encouraging him, also told him he couldn’t make a living out of his illustrations because he “could only succeed if he was good at it.” My mother was a housewife.” He drew on his old notebooks, and an aunt who was a teacher gave him test papers she had finished checking, the blank sides of which he used. And those comics made me decide I wanted to create comics, too.” “I don’t remember a time I wasn’t drawing. The future magna cum laude graduate and National Book Award winner was in the third grade then. His family had just moved into another rental house and the former occupants had left copies lying around. ![]() Funny Komiks made Mervin Malonzo realize he could tell stories with drawings. ![]()
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