Language

pa-ZOW is my mother tongue!

I was going over the first three Casanova books, checking out the artwork, the colors, the storytelling challenges (which we met or failed to meet), and I was amazed by the unity of this crazy story.

I was looking at the pages because this years marks the twentieth anniversary of Casanova and we’re pa-ZOWing it in style.

not sure this is the final cover, but if it isn’t, it’s pretty close.

If you don’t know where the pa-ZOW at the end of my letters comes from, it’s from this book. This is the book where we all had to step up our games, twenty years ago: it was Matt’s first monthly book (Bá’s as well on LUXURIA, and mine on GULA), and it was the book that proved people we all could go do other mainstream projects: Matt went on to write Iron Man, and Bá started The Umbrella Academy.

Here’s the solicitation copy:

CASANOVA COMPENDIUM BOOK 1 TP
Casanova Quinn gets ripped out of spacetime, betrays everyone he ever loved, and destroys whole worlds in his wake. But it's okay. Everything's going to be okay. The first three CASANOVA stories are now collected in one massive, brain-melting, idiom-incinerating volume. CASANOVA: We were destroying multiverses before destroying multiverses was cool. Collects CASANOVA: LUXURIA #1-4, CASANOVA: GULA #1-4, and CASANOVA: AVARITIA #1-4 2026-06-24

I don’t know exactly when the FOC date is, but it should be soon, so you better get moving and tell your retailer you’re interested in one of these babies.

no hablo inglês

For the longest time, Bá had a t-shirt with “no hablo inglês” written on it.

so much of this drawing will disappear once inked.

When I’m doing everything on a story, which means writing, drawing, lettering and, maybe, coloring it, my pencil stage has the balloons in place. If the project dictates that the lettering will be done digitally, I’ll eventually erase those penciled balloons and draw what’s below them, but if I want to hand letter the page, the balloons will remain on the page and be inked (I even use that mysterious Ames guide and everything).

I was doing the basic layout for these pages of a story I’m working on, and after placing all the balloons and writing what was on them in English, I changed my mind and rewrote the entire sequence in Portuguese.

Body language is a really important storytelling element that writers don’t often take into account when writing their scripts.

I have written most of my comics of the last fifteen years in English, but I believe there are some things in terms of the style of my writing which I can only access when I’m writing in my mother tongue, the same language I grew up listening here in São Paulo, the language of the classics of literature that have made me want to write, the language of the most potent poetry I know.

Which language do you whisper in somebody’s ear words of love and passion and desire? That’s the language you should write in.

Amor.

Paixão.

Desejo.

Be safe, be kind, be curious.

Pa-ZOW!


Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
May 4th, 2026