julette is a superhero of mine and this is uh an addition of my new york diary in portuguese that i translated and i wrote an introduction for too julie i think she influenced me a lot because the disproportionate characters maybe the giving you permission to have the characters look like that she's an absolute genius so this is a british cartoonist called nathan condre and uh i suggested to my editor in brazil that he would be a good person to to publish in brazil and it is my claim to fame that he did he's an amazing cartoonist extremely funny so i consider comics an art language it combines visual arts and storytelling it's honestly my favorite art form we're at lions tooth this is my shop lions 2 specializes in small press comics for kids and adults no superhero comics either it's comics for kids or it's comics that are what i consider art comics when you make independent comics you play every part you're every character you are doing custom design you're doing location scouting every aspect of it depends on you they are very authentic people are very passionate about it and there's really no limits of what a comic can be [Music] my last name is pronounced cicada like the bug uh it's very different from the way you write it and a lot of americans will say "oh i can't roll my ars."

but then if you say cicada you're actually saying the way that we say my name in brazil so i was born and raised in s paulo i moved to milwaukee at 30 years old to go to wm for graduate school so when i was a kid i would read comics all the time but i was not i did not like superhero comics i like the the comics that were made for kids and then somebody published love and rockets in brazil and that was when i became i was like what is this that's when it opened my mind so this is a edition of himeir nandi's maggie the mechanic part of love and rockets and this one i did not translate i reviewed the text and i wrote an introduction and i included in the introduction this picture that haimey drew of me he was just making sketches at the san diego comic-con and that that was the sketch that he did so this is very dear to me after many years not having confidence about drawing my own comic the technology evolved that i can draw in a tablet in a comfortable way and then working at lion's tooth and seeing everybody's work i i was kind of like i should i should do this recently there's also some things that i discovered that kind of reminded me of what comics can be and one of them is this book it's called why don't you love me it's a book that has not one but two twists but the way that it's written and what it did and the way that it references uh comics as a language uh reminded me that comics can be that so i i i wanted to give myself the chance to make a comic from beginning to end like a long form [Music] comic it used to be cute to like conspiracies we're living in a time everything is black and white everything is like in portuguese say 8 or 80 you know like everything in the extremes and there's not a lot of conversation there's not a lot of nuance in arguments so the book is a lot about the internet and misinformation and rumors louisa the main character she comes from a family of palm readers the three main characters are basically louisa her grandmother and her mom louisa's mom is a con artist she doesn't believe anything is real she doesn't believe in the ma like there's no magic like she would would be like the hardcore atheist you know pragmatic person and her grandmother is a spiritual and intuitive so louise is in between those two characters but what i hope the story is going to show is that two things can be true at the same time you can have space for intuition and for the invisible world without throwing the baby out with a bath water and that's one of the things that i believe in that the world is weird and mysterious enough without it being flat without aliens being among us without reptilians there's enough in art and science and the actual world that is mysterious and that we don't need to make up more thanks for watching the arts page please like subscribe and turn on notifications for more stories of art in our community