Manolito Tolentino Mayo (December 17, 1954 – May 4, 1983)[1] was a Filipino graphic artist, printmaker, avantgarde poet, sculptor, and art professor.

[6] His father was an employee at the Philippine National Bank branch of Lipa City who had retired early to establish The Lipa Trading Company, a multifaceted family business that included insurance, financing, real estate, agriculture, tax preparation and a Suzuki motorcycle dealership and tricycle shop.

[1] He attended De La Salle Lipa, one of the local high schools that was established by the Lasallian Brothers, and graduated in 1971.

Business Day writer Angel G. De Jesus wrote that Mayo was "a surrealistic expressionist with a satiric sense of humor".

In his work Pula Puti, he depicted a cockfight scene with two roosters with muscular human forms readying for a gladiatorial fight.

[2][4][1] He infused art and punk as a subculture and influenced many young artists and musicians to explore the subversion and excitement of the genre.