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To talk about this page is to talk about my childhood in México in the 90& #39;s.
I was 12 years old in 1992 and I couldn& #39;t get enough Marvel stuff! I luckily lived in the northern side of the country near the frontier with the United States, so getting comics at (...)
I was 12 years old in 1992 and I couldn& #39;t get enough Marvel stuff! I luckily lived in the northern side of the country near the frontier with the United States, so getting comics at (...)
(...)the convenience store was common, friends in southern parts had to go to their LCS.
The 90& #39;s were fantastic (electric!), everything was so full of energy, aggro and in your face, you could feel the excitement of the coming millennium as technology was becoming democratic(..)
The 90& #39;s were fantastic (electric!), everything was so full of energy, aggro and in your face, you could feel the excitement of the coming millennium as technology was becoming democratic(..)
(...) and computers with Internet popped in everyone& #39;s homes. At the same time in my particular zone of the Universe things were super grim. I grew in a very catholic family -quite conservative I would say- I had to go to a catholic school which was just 2 blocks away from (...)
(...) home so my whole life was spent in less then a square kilometer. As a kid everyone knew I was gay, had effeminate maners and didn& #39;t do the normal stuff people expected, I was scolded a bunch of times for the way I expressed, or behaved, and don& #39;t get me started with the(..)
(...)bullying at the school, so in my 12yo mind being myself was wrong and disgusting.
Comics were my gateway to happiness, my favorite heroes were my world and they became my obsession. I really wanted to do comic books so I started drawing which became my main focus.(...)
Comics were my gateway to happiness, my favorite heroes were my world and they became my obsession. I really wanted to do comic books so I started drawing which became my main focus.(...)
(...)Now that I think in retrospective I was truly avoiding my social context with comics and art. But there was something that really bothered me, there were no gay characters or Mexican or Latinos or people who looked like me, that saddened me a lot.(...)
With time I had to learn how to act straight, to man up, I even tried to like sports, that didn& #39;t go well, lol. I built a huge wall around me so noone could think I was gay (because that was wrong). (...)
Time passed, things got better, I left home, started working on comics, built the courage of coming out and took control of my life, it was super hard to let go of that fake armor, to relax and be comfortable in my own skin.
Now I just want to be FABULOUS, dark and fabulous(...)
Now I just want to be FABULOUS, dark and fabulous(...)
But why did I have to tell you all of this?
Because REPRESENTATION IN COMICS IS MOST IMPORTANT. Comics are a reflection of their own historical context and its time to show within their pages a reflection of the people that reads them, of the people that makes them. (...)
Because REPRESENTATION IN COMICS IS MOST IMPORTANT. Comics are a reflection of their own historical context and its time to show within their pages a reflection of the people that reads them, of the people that makes them. (...)
When I opened this page I had to sit down and stare at it for a long time, to see my favorite gay couple as the central characters of this year& #39;s main event surrounded and supported by other important characters was POWERFUL. (...)
I am not lying when I tell you that I simply started crying, good tears, happy tears, grateful tears, proud tears. (...)
We have come a long way since the 90& #39;s and we still have a lot to do, but I am very happy to do my part, to share happiness through comics, to let kids who are reading these books that they are not alone, there are more people like you, that being you is fine and with time (...)
THINGS GET BETTER (...)
Lots of love from everyone involved in Empyre!!!
And thank YOU for being a part of this.
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And thank YOU for being a part of this.
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