The first line of the Mexican National Anthem says: "Mexicanos al grito de guerra el acero aprestad y el bridón" (Mexicans, to the cry of war, take on your steel and your steed), which means something like: "Mexicans, when someone tells us there is a war going on we have to get our hands on a weapon and we have to also get a fine-ass horse."After six years in Tucson, Arizona, after a Masters and a Ph.D., I can finally reap the fruit of so much hard work and study. Of course, after turning into an expert on Hispanic Literature the most logical thing I could do is to start my career as a comics artist.
And yes, a friend of mine offered me the opportunity of doing what I always dreamed of doing: to earn money with my drawings.
And I have been doing that since January, when we started algrito.com, a weekly webcomic written by JC and drawn by me. We have slowly earned a number of visitors and each time this number grows.
Besides, during and after my trip to Paris in the Summer of 2009 I started also my other project, La República de Sonora, an ambitious graphic novel about Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon, something of which I will write in a later occasion.
Here I leave you with some examples of my artistic process for algrito.com. The complete , colored, versions are on the website. I invite you ladies to visit the website each week for a new comic. I salute you, faithful miladies.
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