What will the new Moon bring? 🇺🇸

I finished putting shelves up on my “library”. My books can finally stop living in boxes, and suddenly my house looks completely different. The paintings and posters I still have to hang give a casual, artsy look to the house while they’re all still on the floor leaning on the walls. The books, on the other hand, and the several card box boxes they were into, gave it a half chaotic, half abandoned look. Now that the shelves are in place, the house looks alive, and it looks like “my house” in ways it never did before. I “treated” my books with the respect they deserve, and in turn I’m now warmly embraced by each room I walk into.

The class I curated at the park library is coming to an end this week, and it was really rewarding to see the fanzines all (or almost all) students produced ready. My career started making zines, self publishing when I didn’t know any publishers, or the way to contact the publishers I knew, and it gave me hope for this new generation to see their works become the physical object that can go and find its audience.

With the end of the class, I can go away wet my feet at the ocean and dream about new things for the new year. I can also pick a book I wanted to read for a while, and I can write and draw pages. Most people go on vacation during the summer here in Brazil, which for me makes it a wonderful time to focus on work. The phone doesn’t ring, no emails to be answered, no events to attend.

And now, with no shelves to hang, I have even more time to put dreams down on paper and get ready for whatever the new moons will bring.

I don’t think I’ll write another letter this year. January may also pass silently. I hope you all take this time to reflect on what makes you happy, and how we can all be part of making the World a better place.

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

Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
December 16th, 2024

p.s: I’m really curious to see how Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon’s SPECTATORS will end. It’s so close now!