Nature Nurtures

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January 6, 2024 · Bilingual, Comics

Sesenta presenta a new addition to the bilingual comic series by Carlos Matallana. This strip reflects on nature in the city, picking fruit in orchards or on the street, and family traditions.

Cover image for Nature Nurtures, a comic strip by Carlos Matallana for Sesenta. Image is orange with yellow text and black figured people looking at nature in the background.
Cover image for Nature Nurtures, a comic strip by Carlos Matallana for Sesenta. Image is orange with yellow text and black figured people looking at nature in the background.
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