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Many youth performances go unnoticed unless you are related to the kids involved. In this comic strip, Carlos Matallana takes us to the youth dance recital at the McFetridge Sports Center.

Image: A three panel comic header image that is blue, green, and yellow. Featuring exclamatory remarks and noises associated with kids running to a performance. Two characters are shown having the following conversation, "What's going on?" "A kid's dance recital. Got them tickets from my primo." "I feel grossly underdressed" "Everyone seems excited and convoluted." At the bottom the title of this comic strip reads, "FAMILY AFFAIR" in black text.
Image: A three panel comic header image that is blue, green, and yellow. Featuring exclamatory remarks and noises associated with kids running to a performance. Two characters are shown having the following conversation, "What's going on?" "A kid's dance recital. Got them tickets from my primo." "I feel grossly underdressed" "Everyone seems excited and convoluted." At the bottom the title of this comic strip reads, "FAMILY AFFAIR" in black text.
Image: a three part comic image shows three scenes. 1) A group of people stare off to an unseen area and text bubble reads: "Todas estas familias..." "Yep, multigenerational noise and chaos." 2) Two characters conversate, "The young talented..." "And cute clumsiness." 3) Bottom image shows a kid whisper to another kid in a tutu, "Ya es hora!" and four other kid performers warm up around them wearing ballet attire.
Image: A four panel comic image showing a realistic sunset, blue, green, white, and yellow which continues the conversation from the previous panel, "Or watching a sunset" "Only longer" "Or la paleta del verano" "Without the sticky fingers" "Or a motorcycle stunt sight" "From a safe distance" "Or an unexpected encounter en medio del bosque" "All at once!"
Image: a three part comic image shows ballerina performers on stage in blue and white. 1) The text bubble reads, "LUCIA! BRAVO LUCIA!" and a ballerina looks behind and tells the other ballerina, "Is that my dad? Is he upset?" 2) Same ballerina is shown in a blue stage asking, "Dad?" 3) Two main characters converse, "Poor child, she got confused" "That's the dad that was sleeping in the hallway."
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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