a comic strip in the spirit of the holiday cheer. right? ;P

Hey Everyone,

Here is the concept for WHEN GUAM WAS MY WORLD wallet design two. The math wallet is now available for sale with issue number on Hungry Creators. I want to thank allllllll the people out there who bought the comic, read the comic, commented on the comic, and those intending on reading it. I absolutely value your role in my growth. To all new comic friends that I met at the Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival, thanks for the trades and I’m enjoying the experience of reading your work. I can’t believe the amount of contacts and feel very hopeful about this comic community building. I am up for any questions or critiques to keep improving. Please email pilario.hungrycreators@gmail.com if you want to reach me!

Btw, this is the back cover of the wallet. Working on the front toniiight and tomorrow! So hopefully if your pretty eyes come by Friday, it will be done! :D

Here’s page 9 of WHEN GUAM WAS MY WORLD issue 1. It’s one of my favorite pages and really captures the dynamic of the whole issue. I am counting down the days for the VEGAS VALLEY COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL. Hope to see you at the Flamingo Library Saturday Nov. 5 from 10am-4pm.

Here is revamped Pho-sho’d page 16. To see what this page used to look like, click here.

Hello Readers!

This is page 12 of WHEN GUAM WAS MY WORLD issue 1. It was from an old idea/comic that I did last year about this time. To save you time from digging in the archives, you can click here to see the development in my style. I hope all of you come on down and visit the Hungry Creators booth at the Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival on Saturday November 5th from 10am-4pm! Admission is free!

Page 11 of When Guam was my World. A pivotal but simple moment.

Hey Hey Everyone,

This is a preview of the Green Machine Comic work in color I’m doing for Hungry Creators. Still top secret project till October! Stay tuned! Please note that the first issue is still in black and white cus’ I keep it classy! lol.

senior pages 13 and 14. ahhhh 1 more page to pencil and ink than it will be time to glue my self to photoshop.

There are no words to describe how my life’s changed in the past two weeks. I’ve been avoiding trying to sum it all down here because my heart is bursting with ideas for the future while also cherishing this blessed past. It’s those kind of moments where life begins to feel like it came to a full circle. But my past mistake in believing all resolution has come to leisurely stop was always the wrong idea. Life is this continuum and while there may not be a challenge present, it is the one staring at you in the face in the morning. It is yourself and nothing is more beautiful than knowing you want to improve without anyone nagging you or pushing you to do it. I now know I have a will that may not be very strong as of right now but it exists. It’s breathing and claiming life.
The one thing I wanted to do was teach. I thought I wanted to teach history even if art had been the only real thing that lingered in my heart. But I realize that the concepts of history and art are intertwined fearlessly into each person’s well being. They help us understand how we will make this a better world because in the end, we’d hope it end beautifully despite the crimes and wickedness we inflict upon each other and ourselves. Looking back on my life, I’ve always switched between two extremes. From being a workaholic-social-power-hungry-leader to a shy-easily-infatuated-pushover, I wasn’t quite sure where the hell did I fit in. But now I do if I allow myself to understand that there is nothing wrong with being complex and simple all at once. It gives me access to both worlds, a door into an expanding audience. In my art, I am teaching the history of ignorance and idealism. It is a place I know we’ve all spent pretending to forget.

Photo taken on August 6 by fellow cartoonist Kyle Warren taken in White River Junction, Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Spent a week on the concentration of self publishing comics.