Snake

When I created Jiló, in early 2000, the idea was to explore the features and the world of a snake. Most people are afraid of and disgusted by snakes, and that’s why girls rejected him, but the idea of snakes eating small animals like rats and frogs also interested me. So I thought about illustrating a situation where he was peeking at a frog girl in a pound. A frog who was really comfortable at “home” doing something intimate and unexceptional at the same time, like painting her nails (of course I ignored the fact that frogs don’t have nails; my intention was to represent a ladies habit, something behind the scenes, that’s why she’s wearing only a blouse and panties). But when I think about an illustration, I also think about a whole story and I hope that image can abridge all the ideas inside itself. In this case I’ve always wanted to go beyond it, redoing the art seven years later. It’s the art that opens this chapter, but only now, in 2014, when I could finally have the opportunity to tell the whole story through this area of media that I love so much, comics.