I love Criminal Minds. Next to Law and Order SVU is my favorite crime procedural, and unlike Law and Order SVU, I still have most of my favorite characters on the show.
So I was really, really happy when they won the weekly poll. Sure, I went for the classics (minus Gideon), but you can’t blame me. They’re all iconic.
Next in my haunted houses series, is the Alberdeen Tolbooth. It may be a bit of a cheat, as it’s not a house now, and it never was. It was a prison, and now it’s a museum. Hence, he’s a guy. And well, he has the reputation of being the most haunted place in all of England. Sure, most of the hauntings are pretty tame, and it’s mostly to scare people away, but given how violent the story of old England prisons is, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was more bloody than we all imagine.
Have I mentioned I love Baseball? Because I do. I adore the sport, I adore everything around the sport, and there’s nothing I like more than watching games while I draw. So… yeah, the Traveling Seers are dear to my heart. As I mentioned before, I am just introducing them in English, despite being a bit older for Mexican readers, so I hope you read the comic here, and subscribe to get all the updates!
 
 
I.Doll was my professional debut in Mexico. I was 17 years old, and couldn’t believe my luck when I was told that an editorial actually wanted one of my stories for a new project with national stories. It was thanks to the recommendation of my friends Obal and Gaby Maya, who was an editor at the time, and Victor Fernandez, who would be the editor of the magazine and you have no idea how grateful I am to them even now.
This particular image is a bit old, but I was cleaning my harddrive and found it, and then realized I had never shared it anywhere so… here she is, Irene Doll, I.Doll, my very first original character who, despite the fact that I ended the comic three years ago (after long hiatus, long story. The whole thing is about 420 pages long), is still very close to my heart.
Who knows? I may draw her again someday.
As many children in the late eighties, early nineties… I loved Ducktales. It wasn’t my favorite series, but it was close to the number 1 spot. I could hum the song both in spanish and english and omg, I have so many good memories of both Ducktales and later, Darkwing Duck (yes, my favorite in both was Launchpad McQuack, named Joe in spanish).
So of course, when the reboot was announced… I was both scared and excited. Because yay! More Ducktales. But… reboot. Dread. Fear. And all the things that could go wrong.
Of course, fears were unfounded. Ducktales 2017 was even better than my memories of the old series, just by the simple fact of having Donald Duck in a more active role, that Webby and Mrs. Beakley are not just the loads, and that it had not one, but FOUR different character arcs for each character. In a word, is perfect.
Sure, it needs more Darkwing, and it definitely needs more Donald… But they have Season 2 to fix that! đŸ˜€
 
In 2015, I started in spanish a series that is really, really close to my heart: Traveling Seers.
The story of a baseball team made up of mediums, the only ones allowed to play in the Afterlife League, where all those people who loved baseball in life can keep playing for eternity.
I published two books of short stories in spanish, Traveling Seers and Traveling Seers: The spirit of the Game, but they have never been available in English… until now, sort of.
Starting this Wednesday, September 5, you can read the stories of the Traveling Seers Here. For now, I’m starting sharing the stories that are already available in Spanish, only translated, but after a while I will also start adding completely new stories (That will, in time, make the third volume of this series). Of course, if you want to buy the volumes in spanish, they’re still in stock at the Store.
I really hope you enjoy this new adventure, and while the real Baseball season is about to end, you have fun with the new afterlife season.
This past august I started two newsletters that may be of your interest: The first one is Ada Tours with tips and ideas on how to enjoy Comic Con International, and the second is the Calico Chimera Monthly, that you can join either here, or in the form in the right column. (Just hit enter when you’re done, for some reason the “subscribe” button gets eaten by html)
In the newsletter you will get a summary of what’s going on in the month, some sneak peeks to new art and projects as well as some other surprises. So please, join today!
The Calico Chimera maillist is biweekly, so you’d be getting the very first one next week!
While I’ve loved Magic Girls forever, more or less since I watched Minky Momo and Lalabell in TV, after Sailor Moon I kind of… abandoned my hope in the genre. Everything after Usagi and her friends seemed so… samey. Even Precure (Which I discovered later was FAR better than first impression) left me kind of blah.
Enter Madoka Magica. Which I had to watch to write an article in a magazine because the heartless editor wanted me to suffer (jk. I was the heartless editor, and given that all I knew about Madoka were the cutesy designs, well, I wasn’t going to make one of my writers suffer). This was right when it premiered, btw, so no one knew what it was really about, and no one, NO ONE, was prepared for Episode Three.
Needless to say, I got hooked.
If you haven’t watched it, and are free of spoilers, watch it. If you watched it, watch it again. Because it’s a good anime. And I will always love it because it brought me back to re-discover a genre I adore.
 
I’ve talked about Gradients (previously Abre Una Ventana), very recently. Just when I was announcing the beginning of the strips on Patreon, I made a series of most of the main cast for Instagram, that I am sharing here again.
Aria, Henry, Moonbeam Honesty, Luisa, RenĂ©, Romeo, and Xolotl look a bit different when I make them in traditional techniques, but they’re still my beloved kids.
I adore Steven Universe. It’s one of my three favorite cartoons right now, because of the gorgeous colors, the amazing characters and more importantly, because the main message is that communication is key for everything. So of course, when it won my weekly poll… I just couldn’t choose just 7 characters, I had to do EVERYONE. But the main ones are the Crystal Gems.
I will probably do this again one day, correct some of the ideas that, by doing a full image by segments, didn’t translate perfectly. But for now, Here, We are the Crystal Gems, and we always save the day.
