sketching things out 🇺🇸

I feel good about the first page I inked in 2025. I changed the last panel following a suggestion Bá made, but not before I light-boxed the original last panel into a separate paper in case I changed my mind afterwards and decided the first layout worked better.

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Sketch with purpose. Try some sentences out to see if you like those works in that order. Think about an image, draw it, then come up with some words that will give that drawing a meaning. Some times a story will start with just that: a drawing, some scribbles next to it, an idea you committed to paper to see if it sticks.

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After finishing All Fours, I read a 200 pages long Brazilian Graphic Novel called Como Pedra (Like a Stone, in a free translation), which is in the official selection for this years’ Angoulême Festival award. I met the author, Luckas Iohanathan, at the end of the year at CCXP (the big convention that happens in São Paulo), and I only heard about him and his book because it also won a big literary award in the comics category last year. The best thing about awards is how they can increase a book’s audience and make people curious and interest in a book that they otherwise wouldn’t even know existed. Awards put books on people’s radars.

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Which book should I read next? A Brazilian author? Another Graphic Novel? A book I bought this weekend when I stopped at a street bookstore while riding my bike, or one of the classics I have on my shelf but never dove in?

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

Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
January 13th, 2025