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Drawing has always been my master pillar.
My emotional memory, and what I am, is deep-seated in drawing.
I can't take drawing away from my life.
I have a movie approach, I can't help.
I'm a cartoonist who often refuses to use the wonderful resources of comics.
So I try to expand it, something like a multi-cropped page,
I almost draw a cartoon of a storyboard.
I realized that I'm almost acting as if I were a poor filmmaker from a poor country,
who had no opportunities on making movies and ends up achieving it through the cartoon.
I have an intuition process.
Actually, I don't work on a hard planning: "Oh, this story... ",
but I'm very fast.
Reflection come with it, but immediately it has to go to the paper.
I want to have it on a paper, and then: what does it happen?
I tend to leave the sketch.
My wife gets mad at my superlatives,
but my perception is that I might be the fastest cartoonist in Brazil.
Which doesn't mean anything really, you can only be a fast crap...
By the need of it, it became my own feature.
Maybe, what unites me is its theme, much more than the shape.
I think I have an European personality in my imagination, but let's say it's a "River Plate" European kind,
which is a mixture of Latin America with an European influence.
And in this theme, there's always the border and the politics, but not the bad part of it.
Politics as telling the history,
my neurotic approach towards the human insanity.
City is my obsession.
It took over me to a point that I have my own city assembled
which I'm working on over 23 years, since 1990.
It's a needlework. It keeps increasing and being woven.
Nowadays, it's 30 meters long and it has 400 papers now.
But it's the city what has always fascinated me.
It's a matter of drawing. I like this intuition: on a napkin...
Sometimes, I like to draw on a café, anywhere.
My sanity comes from the drawing.
I think it's a matter of controling, organizing the world.
I'm a guy who ended up on this planet
and figured many cool things on it, but it's a horrible place.
And to try to control the uncontrollable, because in fact nobody controls anything
and, to me, not commanding is a desperation.
But over the drawing, I can command. I find order,
I can get a pseudo-order in absolute chaos, right?
I think the most pathetic thing in our time is that we're full of gadgets
and we think we control something.
There is no control. Sorry to say that.