Client: Antología Gorgona
Project: Nubes Oscilantes
Antología Gorgona is a Colombian comic book’s annual publication featuring science fiction, horror, and existential stories by Rodrigo Lucio, illustrated by a series of illustrators.
“Nubes Oscilantes” is my collaboration with the magazine. The story is a monologue about the inevitability of loss, but also the reassurance of a collective nature and the return of energy to the natural cycle we are all part of.
Travel is one of my main inspirations in life as a storyteller. Mixing this passion with my other favorite activity, drawing, my illustrated travelog “Minigatari” was born in 2021. Following my latest trip to Japan, “Minigatari” was a collection of short stories about Japanese concepts.
The first chapter is “Oishii” (Delicious). It tells the story of how I gained insight into Japanese culture during a cooking class in Osaka.
This chapter’s aesthetic takes inspiration from the Japanese printing technique of Risography, hence the bright colors and ink superposition. I also wanted to get away from classic comics’ grids, and also gave type more graphic importance, to create a mix between comic and editorial design.
I didn’t continue to post more stories on the blog because it quickly turned into a more complex graphic novel project that will be published in 2026.
Client: El Monstruo de colores no tiene boca
Project: Sueñario
El Monstruo de colores no tiene boca is a publishing project by Mexican anthologist Roger Omar. He’s been collecting and editing stories based on dreams by kids and illustrators since 2002. He collaborates with artists from all around the globe.
For his new “Sueñario” I did an old dream I had some years ago. It is a story where I was traveling with my family in Iran. Not the real one, though, the one created in my dreams, featuring herds of giant lions and houses that transform into trains. In this dream, I stumbled upon an old friend I had a big crush on, but lost contact with. I never had the chance to talk to him about that, but we ended up patching it up a little. At least in this dream.
Again, I tried to get away from a more classical comics’ structure and played with the idea of dreams. I changed the usual reading direction, creating circular or spiraling frames that reflect how, in dreams, we end up in weird situations and places. I normally like being very detailed with my characters, but in this case, I decided to make them more anonymous because identity is something ever-changing in dreams.
