Selected list of books that I've had the pleasure to illustrate for well-known authors and graphic novels that I have written and illustrated myself.
La gravedad y otras sustancias
"A powerful visual allegory that explores the darkest territory of comics: the representation of the abstract and pure ideas” - Gerardo Vilches - Comic Critic
Gold Medal - Society of Illustrator NY
Award of Excellence - Communication Arts
Seymour Chwast Award - The Museum of Avant-garde
American Illustration Selection
Reading Colombia
Norwegian Wood
Finely crafted in series as the previous Kafka on the Shore (Editor’s Choice), Murakami’s tender and nostalgic NORWEGIAN WOOD by The Folio Society is the first illustrated version I had the immense privilege to put my visual feeling in it. Anyone who has had a heartbreaking, pristine love, this story is waiting for you.
Kafka on the Shore
Murakami revisits the emotionally charged experience of creating 15-year-old Kafka’s journey from confused runaway to enlightened sage. "One of Folio’s finest editions to date".
Silver Medal - Society of Illustrator NY
Silver Medal - LAD Awards
British Book Design and Production Awards
La montaña de la realidad
This is a 7 x 12 in (17 x 30 cm) screen-printed book. 100 signed copies. Halfway through 2017, looking for the best way to get some sleep at a not comfy couch, the idea of making picture fables came to my mind. The characters, instead of animals, would have to be abstract ideas, like happiness, dreams, love, words, meanings. I called them Substantial Comics. I gathered the best 5 short stories.
Best Books Published in Colombia - Revista Arcadia 2018
La vida es ilusión Vol. 2 (Life is an illusion)
It's the second release of the illustration series book. The first book initiated as a digital experiment. The first book made surprisingly well in book stores and creative fairs, so I designed a sequel, with an updated format and dimensions, throughout single images or comic strips.
Contagio
Contagio is a book about the not very known origins of Colombian folkloric dance Mapalé. They say it comes from the fish electric movement when it's jumping in the surface of the fishing boat. They say it was Saint Peter, who prohibited the dance, as it seemed diabolical to him. Mapalé then became a symbol of freedom from the negros in Cartagena