The unit 🇺🇸

My brother did this drawing to celebrate comics from all corners of the World during the first year of the pandemic, in 2020. It ended up as a signed card a Brazilian comic book store would gift people who shopped online (when online was the only safe option). I’m using it to illustrate this letter because nothing I have drawn recently I can show.

The important thing is that I’ve been drawing. As much as I love writing, and think the story is more important than the art, I need to be drawing so that I can have some material residue of my work and can feel like I have, indeed, done something.

It’s hard for me to measure my work in words. In drawings, it’s much easier, but still dubious when they’re sketches or preparatory drawings, or even covers. My most confident unit of work is the comics’s page. If I have drawn a page of comics, I know for sure I have worked on something.

If I have drawn a page of comics, I know I have lived.

I finished a page today, and felt good about it, and decided to write it down and share it with you.

We should all do something that makes us feel good as often as we can.

The big convention in São Paulo is around the corner, and I’m taking the students of my class to visit, with an emphasis on the artists’ alley (because if they want to do comics, that’s where a lot of cartoonists have their best opportunities to show their works and find their audiences), so I better see who’s exhibiting, both Brazilians or foreigners.

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

Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
November 25th, 2024