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Disneylandia for Functioning Alcoholics: a Dark Lord Day Comic

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Rebels with a cause enjoying A Dark Lord Day Festival at 3 Floyds Brewery in Munster, Indiana, among those without any idea what a cause is.

Image: Comic Cover Image is black, green, blue, and white. Title reads, "Disneylandia for functioning alcoholics: a Dark Lord Day by Carlos Matallana" and shows three people yelling and one playing a guitar. In the right side there are four people conversing and two exchange the following, "Our band practices intensively during summer evenings." "Do you guys play anywhere?"
Image: Comic Cover. Image is black, green, blue, and white. Title reads, “Disneylandia for functioning alcoholics: a Dark Lord Day by Carlos Matallana” and shows three people yelling and one playing a guitar. In the right side there are four people conversing and two exchange the following, “Our band practices intensively during summer evenings.” “Do you guys play anywhere?”
Image: Comic Cover Image is black, green, blue, and white. Title reads, "Disneylandia for functioning alcoholics: a Dark Lord Day by Carlos Matallana" and shows three people yelling and one playing a guitar. In the right side there are four people conversing and two exchange the following, "Our band practices intensively during summer evenings." "Do you guys play anywhere?"
Image: A black and white Dark Lord Day festival scene shows attendees raising their fists as they enjoy the performances. Two clear cups with blue and green liquids with conversation bubbles that read, "Yes, in August! Our Reunion concert after 16 or 17 years." "Do you guys have a name?" "Yes, our band's name is 'Cicada Anxiety'."
Image: Three festival attendees are drawn in black and white with the texts above their heads reading, "Your head bounces to haunting shades of Metal. You run into old friends and make new ones, a herd of sun-dried mammals, quenching their thirst with sugary alcoholic drinks." A table of green and blue bottles with black text, "Abbath's black Norwegian Metal reverberates everywhere, among botellas vacias, barrigas llenas y corazones contentos."
Image: A black, white, and blue spread features festival attendees in a moshpit with the word CHIIIINGOOONN over their heads. A male character wearing black glasses and a leather jacket has a thinking bubble over his head, "Moshpit? Moshpit?" on the right is a blue panel featuring High on Fire band with the text above their heads, "High on Fire's music speaks through remarkable riffs, these riffs are only one ingredient in this loud ritual that shields us from a pandemic world sin war. A ritual that grounds you, to then bury you in hell after a couple of songs" and the text "The corporate world capitalizes on created crisis, this band feeds on personal, spiritual and social crisis."
Image: This scene features a tongue diagram that describes beers on the tongue from top to bottom starting with Bitter: Indian Pale Ale, Sour: In Belgian Ales the brewer allows wild yeast strains to enter into the brewing process, Unami: Stouts, Salty, Sweet: flavors are created during the fermentation process. Black text at the bottom reads, "The US brewing culture is pushing further boundaries in the realms of taste. It doesn't mean all of them are great, few formulas survive but the fearless flavor exploration is admirable."
Image: A festival attendee wearing all black throws his hat off and takes off his jacket and throws his hands in the air holding two maracas. The text under a green crowd reads, "You can spot some baby boomers well preserved in alcohol, surrounded by herds of Gen X, assembled in groups revealing great effort in the tribal dressing code. If you look carefully you can spot some cosplay millenials too."
Image: The same male character is pictured playing the maracas while five intrigued or intoxicated faces look at him. Scene in grey is at the bottom featuring the back of a performing band with text reading, "Rebels with a cause enjoying among those without any idea what a cause is."
Image: A drunk character is shown asking, "Did you see that maraca guy?" and his companion replies, "What?? You got drunk and missed the bands! It's over, let's go." and he replies while being carried out, "That maraca guy was daring! That was punk!" and friends carrying him say, "Which maraca guy? You were dreaming, pinche borracho!" The end scene shows two cleaning crew workers hauling trash cans saying, "Man, I found a nice leather jacket!" "I found two maracas!"
All original arte hecho by Carlos Matallana for Sesenta, 2024.
Carlos Matallana Portrait made by his teenage children Marcela and Samuel Matallana, 2021.

About the artist: Carlos Matallana’s (He/Him) illustration tool is ink/pen on paper, He relies on high contrast and its expressionism qualities. Like an anonymous quiet observant, he prefers to illustrate his characters from the back. He enjoys illustrating full body characters standing or in movement, revealing attitudes and feelings through posture or even clothing instead of facial expressions. He published the graphic novel Brea https://manualofviolence.org/ in 2018. Instagram @tropipunk

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