Filipe Melo is a Portuguese musician, film director and comic book writer. Melo wrote The Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy, a series of three graphic novels. The books feature forewords from legendary filmmakers John Landis, George A. Romero, Tobe Hooper and Lloyd Kaufman. He frequently works with Argentinian artists Juan Cavia and Santiago Villa. In 2012 he was invited to write a story for the Eisner winning anthology Dark Horse Presents, also featuring works by Frank Miller and Mike Mignola.
---- Juan Cavia developed his skills in painting, drawing, composition, dynamics and various techniques of representation and animation. After secondary school, he begins to study film while working as storyboard artist and concept designer. Since 2005, he has been working as an art director for film, theater and advertising. He was a co-author of The Adventures of Dog Mendonca and Pizzaboy - The Untold tales of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy.
He frequently collaborates with writer Filipe Melo and artist Santiago Villa. The forewords of volume I and volume II were written by legendary filmmakers John Landis, Tobe Hooper and George A. Romero. In 2012 he illustrated a story for an anthology commemorating the 25th anniversary of Dark Horse Presents, a compilation featuring works by Frank Miller and Mike Mignola.
