Final timeline 🇺🇸

time to hit the road

The time has come.

We packed our bags and hopped on a plane. On two planes, this time, as I travelled on one day and Bá, on another. Maybe we watched the same movie on the plane? Maybe (we did). My plane was delayed and I missed my first connection, and for a little bit I considered the possibility I was going to miss the reason we were traveling in the first place. But I didn’t. I made it.

And then we arrived in Los Angeles.

We went for the premiere of the last season of the Umbrella Academy Netflix show. It’s time to celebrate the journey, and the learning, and all the feelings. We don’t know when, or if, we’ll have another live action experience, specially one like that, and from now on we’re back to where we started: comic book authors full time. Ahead of us, there are only books to do, pages to draw, stories to write. At the same time, every since the show started, we’ve been more than that, because what we’ve learned from this experience has been influencing our new stories, our new drawings, and now we just think differently.

Between the red carpet party in Los Angeles and my next commitment at the Galaxy Con in San Jose, I drove a little off the grid. Surrounded myself with trees and waterfalls, rivers and lakes. Slept under the stars. Changed the scenery and reminded myself how the backdrop of your life weights on the ideas you have. It’s good to see other colors on the night sky, or dive in the clear cold water of a lake on top of a mountain, or light a bonfire and make a wish when your girl sees her first falling star (you’re just grateful, actually. She saw the star, so she made the wish).

I had a great time in San Francisco, where I got to finally go to the James Sime’s Isotope comics store and add my contribution to its toilet seats gallery (of course, I had to draw Scarlett from Smoke and Guns, the book I did with the co-owner of the store, Kirsten Baldock). I thought I would have enough time to visit other comic book stores, like Brian Hibbs’ Comix Experience, but I didn’t make it this time.

I had a great time in San Jose. I got to catch up with my buddy Scott Morse and talk about his great “This ink runs cold” project, where he’s drawing one page stories of both veteran creators and first time writers, and other ideas we both have on how to keep it fresh and interesting in terms of doing new things in comics (or films, series and animations).

I had the chance to catch up with other friends during the convention, but mostly I spent time with Gustavo Duarte, and that’s sometimes the reality of the comic book creators: we both live in São Paulo, fairly close to one another, and we have to go to conventions on another continent to spend time together and have fun, because at home we’re just too busy working all the time.

I enjoyed all the drawings I did on the trip.

Back at the studio, I have a lot of stuff to do, and a lot of stuff I wanna do on top of that because of how inspired I came back from my trip. So, if the periodicity of my letters decreases a little, assume that it’s for a good reason.

Be safe. Be kind. Be curious.
Pa-ZOW!

Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
August 26th, 2024