Tierra del Mar y Sol

As part of the Independent Publishing Resource Center’s Comics Porfolio Program, our cohort collaborated on an anthology titled Portals. Tierra del Mar y Sol was my contribution to the project. This comic was inspired by the work of Richard McGuire, Here. Tierra del Mar y Sol is a non-linear place-based comic that portals through time and moves through themes of water along the borderlands of the Sonoran Desert. This piece seeks to showcase the different ways humans relate to lands traditionally stewarded by the Hohokam, Tohono O’odham, and Hia-Ced O'odham. This comic uplifts the importance of protecting life and challenging the very foundation of U.S. settler colonialism, border imperialism, and extractive industries.

LA Times: Latinx Files Comic

This comic strip was created for LA Times’ Latinx Files newsletter. It celebrates the wittiness of Latine “dichos'' and my love for the latin-infused ska band, Panteón Rococó. Mole is a delicious dish that varies from region-to-region, family-to-family, and even person-to-person in Mexico. Cada quien tiene su manera especial de cocinar su mole preferido. Hence, el uso del dicho “es tu/mi mero mole” as an idiom that highlights an area of expertise or you know, “that’s my sh*t” vibes.

Día de los Muertos: Remembering and Convivendo con nuestros Antepasados

This comic about Dia de Los Muertos was created for the Beyond the Margins, an online publication of the Oregon Humanities.