Karlo (he/him) is a Multimedia Creative fueled by a deep-rooted passion for film, animation, and crafting narratives across digital and print mediums. After earning a dual Bachelor of Arts in English (Film Studies) and Cultural Anthropology (Documentary and Ethnographic Film Studies) from the University of Florida in 2017, Karlo deepened his passion for exploring the human experience through visual art. He further honed his craft at the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) and the School of Visual Arts, diving into comics, illustration, and animation.
Currently, he is expanding his skills in web development, frame-by-frame animation, and UI/UX design.
Karlo has knowledge and experience in script editing, art/layout editing, coloring, book compositing, and clean-up work for titles such as:
- Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (A New York Times Notable Book of 2017) by Julia Wertz (clean-up work)
- Papercutz/NBM Graphic Novels titles such as Nickelodeon’s The Loud House, Nickelodeon’s The Casagrandes, Monica Adventures, The Smurfs, Geronimo Stilton, Vincent, Dinosaur Explorers, and more (script editing, art/layout design editing and coloring, book compositing, meta-data, and clean-up work)
- The Sequential Artists Workshops’ student anthologies including On What Matters: SAW 2020-2021 Certificate Program Anthology; Air On/Off: Science Fiction Comics Anthology; Socially Distant: SAW Pandemic Comics Anthology; and more.
- Bird Brained Zine Anthology (all issues)
Karlo is the founder, editor, and publisher of an off-beat, literary-art anthology titled Bird Brained Zine Anthology, which was created to urge unconventional and underdog creators to keep creating sustainably. He is also the founder of a small side project called GhostCactus Studio, which he hopes will manifest into a physical space for artists to create, print, and connect.
Karlo is available for freelance comic editing, animatic editing, storyboarding, and animation/game design and development.
