The Thing That This Is
Explaining Mundo Mendo is harder than one would think.
April 06, 2026• The Illustrated World of Luis Mendo •
Explaining Mundo Mendo is harder than one would think.
April 06, 2026
I was so happy today to learn that when we die, we become minuscule dust specks: carbon, oxygen, iron, calcium and other stuff. The stuff that forms stars.
March 31, 2026
About Joann Sfar’s ‘La Vie Dessinée’ and how his love for drawing makes me draw too.
March 26, 2026
In a world filled with very convenient but cruelly ugly things, nostalgia is where we find magic.
March 21, 2026
My youngest daughter will start school in two weeks and I am terrified.
March 15, 2026
An open-hearted take on how I ended up using LLMs to do the boring work.
March 09, 2026
Where I mourn the loss of my friend Joachim Baan by finishing a project we ran together, making it all about him and his legacy.
February 15, 2026
The visit of wonderful human Matthew Smith {aka Whale} to Karuizawa reminded me of the need to welcoming more "givers" and rejecting all "takers" in my life.
February 06, 2026
So you want to see Tokyo from a different point of view? Let us show it to you.
January 31, 2026
Nothing comes easy and certainly not comics. A very real fight between me and my work.
January 24, 2026
A little peek behind the process of illustrating a magazine cover. This time for House Beautiful Magazine.
January 16, 2026
Why I do not wish you a year of happiness from January 1st, but rather everyday, from any day.
January 02, 2026