Lines on paper

some things you create, some things you have a reference you searched online, and then you can always look up, look around, and draw from life.

August is passing by me fast, and I’m just trying to focus on the work which, in turn, moves very slowly. For a moment, I considered all the different thoughts going through my mind these past three weeks unworthy of note and debated inside if I would take a break with the newsletter, but every Monday I missed sending out these letters and, in them, making sense of my earlier week and how they moved my future plans forward (I also missed doing the same on Fridays in Portuguese for my local audience).

There was this part of the story Bá and I spent this month designing visually. It took its time, but it was important to do it right. It involved gathering and looking at a lot of references, trying some things together and seeing what looked good.

Bá and I both devoured all three volumes of Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Days. It has been a while since we read a comic book that made is want to do comics so hard. What an incredibly inspiring story. It worked with us in so many levels. Strangely enough, it made us want to make a serialized story way more than any mainstream American comic.

At least once a week, I sketch something on a notebook, be it on a coffee break at the studio, be it somewhere around town at the smaller pocket notebook I carry with me. I used to write some thoughts down as well, and I still miss the habit of doing that.

There’s always room to learn and to improve.

Be safe, be kind, be curious.

Pa-ZOW!

Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
August 18th, 2025