• Current Age: 29
• Current Residence: Mandaluyong, Philippines
• Interests: an eclectic mix, from Greek mythology to Asset Protection
• Favourite movie: The Godfather
• Favourite band or musician: Norah Jones
• Favourite genre of music: acid jazz
• Current Favourite artist: Scott Kurtz
• Current Favourite poet or writer: Jose Javier Reyes
• Favourite style or digital art: painted
• Operating System: WIN98
• Favourite cartoon character: GTO
• Tools of the Trade: green pencil, Rotring graphic 0.8,  0.1, Photoshop 7.0

The cartoonist known to the world as Lyndon
Gregorio rose up from obscurity into the realm
of anonymity. Raised in a water drum by wild
boars, L. spent most of his younger days
scratching obscene childlike drawings on the
walls surrounding Intramuros. He was found 
by kindly strangers at the age of 6 and brought
to the green meadows of White Plains to be
raised among the wealthy and powerful. L.
committed suicide on  both strangers at the
age of 8.

He spent the next 10 years wandering the
streets of New York (Cubao) and Washington 
(Ayala), living off birds' nests and sunripened
bananas. One day, he found his calling when
a man dropped his felt pen by accident. L.
took the pen and exchanged it for real food.
He spent the next 5 years stealing pens and
bartering it for meals.

L. found his second calling when he used one
of his stolen pens to draw a remarkable
portrait of a passing gentleman. The gentleman
took one look at the sketch and recognized his
stolen pen in the process. L. was captured and
sent to boys' town. He now works along with
25 other miscreants to ink the panels of
Beerkada, as a reminder that all the jokes
that made you laugh in every strip was done
at the expense of much abused and unloved
juveniles. 

If you know of any such child, please call
Bantay-Bata 163 and help build lives again.

Culture Crash Interview, August 2002 (390kb)

Manila Tribune, Sept. 7, 2002

Manila Bulletin, Sept. 21, 2002