Pictured left is heralded artist Alexis Pena Goco who accesses abysmal interpretatives from his imagination of the fallen angels "Satan" and "Gabriel" as spoken of in Holy Scripture, and delivered through his comic strip series titled "The Satan Complex" or also known as TSC. "It all started while I was attending an all boys private Catholic school, and in the midst of the strict curriculum and rigid structure - a book called The Satanic Bible was keeping a large group of boys amused between their classes and lunch breaks, including myself; even my fingers paged through the wicked book. This same year I was introduced to Dungeons & Dragrons (D&D) - a role-play board game that I never really understood until a friend of mine gave me D&D's pack of six dice - oddly shaped and translucent, bearing the various shades of the color wheel. Along with the dice he also gave me the instructional manual and told me that I could learn to play D&D by reading this manual and studying the dice. I read the manual, and I studied the dice frequently but for some reason, we never got around to playing - I'm sure it was because of the demands that our school required, being that it was a private boys school, and topped off - is an accelerated technical trade program that includes two year college studies keeping the student quite busy. Combined studies of three years high school plus two years college - the student will earn a high school diploma and an Associates in their specialized science trade that they accord through the five year course study. Through the course of an eight hour school day the students invested two to three hours learning some level of Theology including mid-day Mass Services. I set the scene here to emphasize what a shock it was when one of the students was found choked around a rope that was hanging from the ceiling of one of the undisturbed classrooms. I didn't actually see him hanging there, but some of the other students and a Professor did. So as a Freshmen in high school, my 14 year old mind asked many questions and stricken with various curiosities - even spilling into the supernatural."
According to birth-rite and legal documents Alexis Pena (Goco) was born July 1, 1969 in Manila, Philippines with parentals Lourdes Pena Goco and Leonardo Santos Goco and the youngest of four other siblings - 3 of which are older brothers, and the eldest - a sister. Alexis has vivid memories of being abandoned with his current siblings, or "step" siblings and parentals or 'step'-parents in the city of El Monte, California and believes to be originally from Carmel, California, and undenounced from the esoteric plains of Tijuana, Mexico. To this day Alexis has no confirmation or knowledge of the whereabouts, or of the identity's of his parents by blood, and genuine ancestry. Today, as we understand to be true - his eldest 'step'-brother, Eliezar has had his focuses on art since childhood and played a role in influencing Alexis' artistic interests. Eliezar now works independently as a Producer in the San Francisco Bay area. Alexis says that Eliezar's influence continues to mentor some of his aspirations. His parents graduated from The University of the Philippines (both in the field of sciences - his mother in Pharmacy, and his father in Bacteriology) and arrived in California with high hopes and vivid imagery about the United States. His mom first migrated with two of her college mates to the U.S. living in the Los Feliz, California area. They spent a year adjusting and preparing for the arrival of their families and soon Lourdes landed a job in the El Monte area as a technical writer for a large pharmaceutical company and so quickly found an apartment that would accommodate her five children and husband. El Monte was divided into three districts: North & South El Monte, and El Monte (east and west areas of El Monte) The Goco Family resided in South El Monte for most of a decade where it was highly populated with Mexican-American Families and Culture. The barriou there prompted with great impact on Alexis a burning desire to express his artistic convictions. Alexis now lives in the San Bernardino, California area where he pursues projects in art, music, and establishing authorship.
Pictured left is heralded artist Alexis Pena Goco who accesses abysmal interpretatives from his imagination of the fallen angels "Satan" and "Gabriel" as spoken of in Holy Scripture, and delivered through his comic strip series titled "The Satan Complex" or also known as TSC. "It all started while I was attending an all boys private Catholic school, and in the midst of the strict curriculum and rigid structure - a book called The Satanic Bible was keeping a large group of boys amused between their classes and lunch breaks, including myself; even my fingers paged through the wicked book. This same year I was introduced to Dungeons & Dragrons (D&D) - a role-play board game that I never really understood until a friend of mine gave me D&D's pack of six dice - oddly shaped and translucent, bearing the various shades of the color wheel. Along with the dice he also gave me the instructional manual and told me that I could learn to play D&D by reading this manual and studying the dice. I read the manual, and I studied the dice frequently but for some reason, we never got around to playing - I'm sure it was because of the demands that our school required, being that it was a private boys school, and topped off - is an accelerated technical trade program that includes two year college studies keeping the student quite busy. Combined studies of three years high school plus two years college - the student will earn a high school diploma and an Associates in their specialized science trade that they accord through the five year course study. Through the
course of an eight hour school day the students invested two to three hours learning some level of Theology including mid-day Mass Services. I set the scene here to emphasize what a shock it was when one of the students was found choked around a rope that was hanging from the ceiling of one of the undisturbed classrooms. I didn't actually see him hanging there, but some of the other students and a Professor did. So as a Freshmen in high school, my 14 year old mind asked many questions and stricken with various curiosities - even spilling into the supernatural."
