Stories bring power 🇺🇸
Before we experience anything, we might have first heard about it, or read about it, leaving us wanting to go out and find out for ourselves what we think when we experience it. We learn about a bigger world than our own every day for our entire lives by the stories we’re told since the moment we’re born. The stories show us that life is grand and we, the players of our own existence, can always grow and get a more important role in the stories we live in.
I liked that aspect of the power of stories in Alan Moore, J. H. Williams III and Mick Gray’s Promethea, and found it a nice challenge to be asked to draw her for the commission I’m doing for the auction that helped the massive floods in the south of Brazil. Promethea, in the comic book, is an entity that inhabits many people over the years, and I’m thinking about the stories that live inside of us and are passed on to others, and how they change a little bit in meaning and importance from person to person, turning one story into many stories. People often ask me about the meaning of Daytripper to me, and I’m always saying it’s not as important as the meaning of the book to them, as the story, now told, is more than just my initial version, it has grown into a bigger entity that has more layers than what I wanted in the first place.
It’s Monday, I did the pencils of the Promethea piece yesterday, and now I have to decide how I’m finishing it, and wether or not I’ll do it in color. I meet up with Bá at the studio after lunch, and he gives me his feedback on what he thought I could improve on the composition of the drawing, and his comments give me more ideas of what I could do.
Colors start to appear.
Will I mess up the final image?
Be safe. Be kind. Be curious.
Pa-ZOW!
Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
June 17th, 2024