Looking back to move ahead
Remembering when I first started thinking about an idea
I finished the drawings for my musician friend’s new band. Once they’ve used it (or not, you never know) on the shows, I’ll talk more about the images and the process in here. Last week, while recovering from another pneumonia, I slowly returned to drawing the pages of the new story, which you know I can’t show yet. With nothing new to show, I often look back to find find an image which can illustrate what’s going on in my mind these days, and since today I’m going to an event at a museum to discuss reevaluating the history of Brazil taking in consideration all the indigenous people who had been living here long before the Portuguese arrived in 1500, I went and found the image above, which I did for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund auction (that takes place every year during Comic Con in San Diego) in 2017. I was reading The Falling Sky, words of an Yanomami Shaman, from Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, and was hugely impressed with how much sense the Yanomami mentality made to me, and how important it still is to try to respect and find balance with nature.
I drew this image while researching many different cultures and thinking about the storytelling power of myths and folklore.
I also found step by step pictures of painting the image.
Since then, my interest in different cultures only grew. Hopefully, I’ll keep trying to enter these conversations, learning all I can, wishing to leave every new experience inspired to tell more stories and inspire more people along the way.
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Talking about inspiring people
Over at their Lethal Comics YouTube channel, Andy Belanger and Karl Kerschl have started a series of videos talking about comics, from the ones they’re doing to the ones they’re inspired by, in a deep dive into the history of comics. I liked this first episode and am curious to see what they’ll talk about, and show, next.
There’s a bonus episode about self-publishing which is also very interesting.
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Also interesting is this conversation between Shawn Krystal and Matteo Scalera with Jake Parker. It can be hard to be a comic book artist, most people don’t know how to start, what to focus on, what exactly is the job and how to get it done, and in this conversation everybody (but mainly Jake) talks about the more practical side of making comics, because we only get better if we finish the story and learn from the experience to later use this knowledge on future stories.
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Be safe, be kind, be curious.
Pa-ZOW!
Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
April 14th, 2025