Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi. I’ve been making graphic novels for ten years. I have nine graphic novels published on Amazon to this day.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called Father and Son, and it’s part of my The Flight of the Condor series. It’s largely inspired by the Batman comics that I grew up reading and still read. It’s about a rich boy who is haunted by an Incan God and becomes a vigilante.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not that I know of. I write an outline to know what happens on every page and then write the dialogues once the page is drawn.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Alan Moore and Denny O’Neil, mostly, but also John Ostrander on Suicide Squad, and Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman. I’d say the comic that has influenced me the most is Denny O’Neil’s The Question. Outside comics, I’d say Latin American literature from the twentieth century (García Márquez, Onetti, Borges, Rulfo…)
What are you working on now?
Right now I’m drawing the first pages of the fourth The Flight of the Condor graphic novel. I still don’t have a title for it.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Some of my books are free on kindle, and sometimes I let people on reddit know. That’s pretty much all the promotion I do.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Well, one thing that has helped me keep on making these graphic novels is the idea that yes, you should pursue success, but you should ask yourself if all the effort you’re putting in will be worthwhile in the end, even if you completely fail in your pursuit of success. If your answer’s a clear Yes, if it’s all worth doing even if you never get the recognition or profit you would love to have, then I think you’re writing for the right reasons, whatever they are. Then you’re unstoppable.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Alan Moore said once you should treat writing like a God. You should worship it, sacrifice yourself to it, instead of using it to get famous or things like that. It’s a bit obscure, but I think it’s the best I have ever heard, by far.
What are you reading now?
In comics, I’m reading Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Batman: The Long Halloween. Novels, I’m reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon, and Petersburg, by Andry Biely. This one is, in Vladimir Nabokov’s opinion, the second-best novel of the past century.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’s always the script of the next graphic novel. After that, I don’t know.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
If I had to choose now, I’d bring Jorge Luis Borges’ complete short stories, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, and Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I’d probably choose something different tomorrow, or in fifteen minutes.
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