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The Luck of the Ironlak: a “Somewhere in Chicago” Story

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A shipment of Ironlak spray cans arrives with a scavenger hunt map that leads to pots of spray cans protected by duendes at Senka park, but will luck be on the Vandal’s side?

Image: A black and white comic cover titled, "Somewhere in Chicago Volume 14: The Luck of the Ironlak." Digital Illustration depicts two vandals looking over at two leprechauns with pots of spray paint cans.
Image: A black and white comic cover titled, “Somewhere in Chicago Volume 14: The Luck of the Ironlak.” Digital Illustration depicts two vandals looking over at two leprechauns with pots of spray paint cans.
Image: A black and white comic cover titled, "Somewhere in Chicago Volume 14: The Luck of the Ironlak." Digital Illustration depicts two vandals looking over at two leprechauns with pots of spray paint cans.
Image: A black and white digital comic page shows two vandals in a room with the lowrider magazine logo poster hanging on a wall. The image shows the vandals speaking to eachother, "Finally our new shipment of sprays is here!" "Looks like it came with a note, wait. A map?!" There are boxes of Ironlak spray cans piled to the right and a small cat playing with a cap on the floor.
Image: A black and white digital comic page shows two vandals discussing a map of Chicago with a scavenger hunt as they discuss, "Looks like it says there's a huge pot of ironlaks hidden somewhere in the city!" "This gotta stay between us! We'd get hunted by every crew in the city if they found out we got this map!"
Image: A black and white digital comic page shows the two vandals walking past the back of a house as two jocks ride by in a classic convertible car. The vandals say to one another, "What I tell you bout the map dude? Hide it!" "The jocks are too dumb to realize what the maps for, be cool!" and the two jocks say to one another, "Look at these squares with a map hehe, probably looking for some style hehe! Laugh Donnie!" "Hehe yea tellem boss!"
Image: A black and white digital illustration of a comic page showing the two vandals on the street as one analyzes the map in his hands and says, "Stupid Jocks! Aren't they lucky to have mommy and daddy buy them paint!" A familiar figure in black is shown across the street greeting the vandals, "Hey, I know where the pot is foo..." and a small cat sleeps in the front of a tagged up house.
Image: A black and white digital comic page shows a cleaned up Jefe and the vandals outside of a Circuit City storefront conversing, "Not that kinda pot! Wait...Jefe is that you?" "Yea I ain't homeless no mores! I got a new job, & hyna too! You guys really gott me out my funk. Head to Senka Park the pot of spray should be in some bushes just watch out for the Irish duendes!"
Image: A black and white digital comic page shows the train tracks at Seka park next to a tagged up silo with a small duende sleeping next to three pots of spray cans as the two vandals walk up to it saying to one another, "Jefe was right about everything! Let's get this paint and dip!" "I wonder if that Leprechaun has any Jameson left?"
Image: A black and white digital comic page depicts the jocks running up on the vandals who are running away with the two pots of spray paint cans as they scream, "RUN!!" "I told you we should of kept following these goofs! Get em!" "Hehe yea! Good thinking boss!" TO BE CONTINUED...

About the Artist: “Buflo” is a Latino graffiti artist who has been painting illegally for more than 10 years. Lately he channels his earliest memories of doing graffiti through short stories giving a glimpse on what one artist might go thru during painting a night in the south side of Chicago. 

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