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.