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Art to the Face #33 September 2026

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ART TO THE FACE #33: Toys, Ninjas, and Other Excellent Bad Decisions September’s sketchbook zine is here! Come for the art. Stay for the tiny plastic bastards and questionable ambition. Between studying for my master’s and training toward teaching graphic design, I somehow kept making shit. Fingers, toes, and huevos crossed—and here’s the evidence: • Toy-making and custom bases for my figures, plus one for my buddy BARRIOBOBA. These little bastards deserve to stand up AND stand out. • CALCINATION No. 1, my finished painting for an upcoming show. Something actually crossed the finish line! Somebody alert the authorities. • NEENJAZ sketches and notes: sharpening characters, rethinking the first year, and preparing to bring it back swinging. • H00D, my “stop-motion comic book” experiment: handmade figures, miniature sets, and photographs turned into a story on paper. Playing with toys with extra steps and a publishing problem. • Kuriouser and Kuriouser sketches, story ideas, and more creative trouble brewing. ART TO THE FACE is my monthly peek into the work: drawings, experiments, discoveries, and ideas getting their first legs. Making something worthwhile takes a little mess. Sometimes a lot. Sometimes the dog supervises. Yes, that’s Luna being a chismosa. Read #33 here, tell me what you dig, and share it with somebody who loves handmade weirdness! Want more comics, art, and stories? Subscribe to FWACATA on Substack for free. Become a paid subscriber if you can and help keep the independent comics, monthly zines, and wild experiments coming. Inktober is next. Apparently my answer to being busy is another goddamn zine. I’ve got shit to make. Come along. Laters.

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Episode 25: Sewing Circle

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Episode #24

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EPISODE 24: Wanna take a ride?

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Episode #23

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EPISODE 23: PAYOFF!

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Episode #22

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EPISODE 22: THE PILLAR!

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ART TO THE FACE 0032 AUGUST 2026

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EPISODE 21: What did I tell you?

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Episode #20

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EPISODE 020: Now you want to know?

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Episode #19

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EPISODE 19: "A" for Effort

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EPISODE 18: Next time TAKE THE DRINK

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Art to the Face #31 July 2026

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ARGH. I had this ready on the 29th, and then life came flying in like a folding chair at a wrestling match. New job. New artwork. New challenges. Coming back from Madrid and immediately getting hit with every loose brick the universe had been saving for me. It has been busy here at FWACATA HQ, to say the least. A certified shitberg, really. And yes, a shitberg is exactly what it sounds like: an iceberg, but made of shit. You’re sailing along, trying to make comics, make art, pay bills, answer messages, stay human, maybe drink water once in a while—and then BOOM. Frozen mountain of nonsense right off the starboard side. But here’s the thing. We’re still here. The boat is dented. The captain is tired. The coffee is gone. But the engine is still growling, and the work is still getting made. That matters. Especially now, when everything feels expensive, exhausting, and designed to make creative people quit. That’s when making things becomes more important. Not because art magically fixes everything. It doesn’t. Art does not pay the electric bill by standing there looking cool. But art does remind us that we’re alive. It reminds us we still have hands, voices, jokes, monsters, stories, and weird little sparks the world has not crushed yet. So I’m still making comics. Still making art. Still building FWACATA one page, one panel, one strange idea at a time. Thanks for reading. Thanks for sticking around. Thanks for giving a damn. Enjoy the new work, let me know what you think, and keep going. That’s the whole trick. Keep going.

Episode #17

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EPISODE 17: AY mi CULO

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Episode #16

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EPISODE 16: He always has a plan...

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EPISODE 15: Are we talking to a dead man?

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EPISODE 14: When can we Expect Payment?

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Episode #13

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EPISODE 13: Nervous was an Understatement

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EPISODE 012: What am I doing here?

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ART TO THE FACE #30 - June 2026

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ART TO THE FACE #30 Is Here Twenty pages of monsters, comic-book chaos, unfinished ideas, finished damage, and whatever happens when summer gives me too much time to think. The newest issue of ART TO THE FACE is finished and ready to invade your device. This is Issue #30, which means I have somehow made thirty of these without being stopped by common sense, the authorities, or the rising cost of ink. Inside you’ll find comic art, sketchbook experiments, character designs, cover work, monsters, robots, zombies, fantasy warriors, old ideas dragged back into the light, and new ones that probably should have stayed buried. It’s part art book, part sketchbook, part studio archive, and part evidence that I’ve never learned to work on one project at a time. There’s work connected to Zombie Years, horror and fantasy pieces, finished commissions, painted studies, rough concepts, maps, notes, and glimpses at how the sausage gets made—assuming the sausage is made of brush pens, caffeine, and bad decisions. That’s the point of ART TO THE FACE. It isn’t a polished corporate magazine built by a committee. It’s direct access to the workbench: what I’m drawing, testing, developing, revisiting, and occasionally wrestling to the ground. Paid subscribers can download the full zine and explore the growing FWACATA archive, including comics, art, process posts, sketchbooks, stories, livestreams, podcasts, and more. Your subscription helps me spend less time begging algorithms to acknowledge my existence and more time making the work. Join FWACATA, download ART TO THE FACE #30, and see what’s happening behind the scenes. Twenty pages. Thirty issues. No corporate polish. Just art—straight to the face.

Episode #11

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EPISODE 11 : Let me tell you a story...

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Episode #10

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EPISODE 10 : BORN MEAN!

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Episode #9

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EPISODE 9 : Rumors...

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EPISODE 8: A collector of sorts...

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a collector of debts and broken legs...

ART TO THE FACE #29

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EPISODE 7: Welcome Home Chuckles!

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