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Texas Latino Comic Con Returns July 28

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After an outstanding success, the first ever Texas Latino Comic Con is coming to BACK to Dallas Texas July 28th. In collaboration with the Latino Cultural Center of Dallas the comic convention is a first of its kind in Texas highlighting Latino artists, writers and creators in the comic book community. The convention will feature MORE local artistic talent, a Latino character centered cosplay contest, and special guests. The event will be free AGAIN for the public. The convention is in conjunction with Dusk Comics, Elia in the Box Studios, and Rio Bravo Comics.

Our first announce guest is Gonzalo Alvarez, illustrator and creator of El Pollo Man, Game Designer, and Creative Director/Founder of Macua Studios. After directing his first game Borders, a game about immigration inspired by his parents stories, the game received international attention and featured on Univision, Telemundo, Washington Post and many others leading to its invitation to Sheffield Doc/Fest Alternative Realities, Indiecade’s Showcase at E3 2017, and PBS.

Returning guests include one of the most fascinating people in Dallas (The Dallas Observer) creator of the internationally renowned Latino comic book series El Peso Hero, Hector Rodriguez. El Peso Hero has been one the most talked about Latino superhero in decades. El Peso Hero has garnered attention and praise from the Latino community and been featured on Univision, CNN, Telemundo, Fusion, CBS, CW, NBC, NPR and countless of other media sites worldwide.

Eliamaria M. Crawford, owner and illustrator of Elia in a Box Studios, is a DFW-based illustrator known for her stick figured, dry-humored comics. She started drawing little comics centered around life’s thoughts and happenings in high school and eventually evolved to doing cool projects from custom wedding graphics, to convention poster art, and even contributing comics to many zines and projects. In the summer of 2016, she got her first book published, “Humans Really Irritate Me,” which is an anthology featuring all the comics she illustrated centered around UTA-famed professor Dr. Allan Saxe. Elia also has a YouTube channel where she posts videos centered around her art life, time-lapse drawings, and vlogs from an artist-alley perspective at conventions. She constantly loves to promote the independent art community.

El Peso Hero Stands up against Mexico’s Cartels, Corrupt Officials, and Human Traffickers

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Rio Bravo Comics is currently running a Kickstarter to get their comic series El Peso Hero out to the public.

El Peso Hero “is heavily influenced by the modern day challenges people from both sides of the U.S-Mexican border face. The main story is centered on “El Peso Hero” – a rogue hero who is standing up against Mexico’s cartels, corrupt officials and human traffickers. The results are often destructive and deadly.”

The team includes Hector Rodriguez, Guillermo Villareal, Chema Cuéllar, Jeff Zornow.

The Kickstarter is to help get the series out there, think of it as a pre-purchase!

The project ends October 17, 2016.

Review: El Peso Hero #1

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Mexico and its war on crime has been a sore subject for many years now and has come back into the spotlight because of the presidential election.  What many people don’t understand about the drug trade, that it is not one sided, in fact, there is many sides that most people, especially politicians do not understand. In addition, there is a cost to be paid in blood most of the time. This a hard lesson that is being learned in the Philippines right now, as the body count has risen to an all-time high there, as the President is determined to stamp out shabu, a low-cost version of amphetamines.

The complex narrative has rarely been told in the varied narratives that it deserves. The show, Kingpin, came pretty close showing it from, the drug cartel’s, DEA’s and politician’s point of views Another show that has come close, is the current running Queen Of the South, which gets into just how dangerous and cutthroat that world is. So, when I heard about Hector Rodriguez III’s El Peso Hero, I was excited, to see a different narrative about the drug trade with a superhero twist.

The reader is introduced to Dr. Salas, a brilliant scientist, who gets kidnapped by the local military, to lead them to a cave discovery of some superpowered crystals, where the doctor takes his own life to keep the location a secret. Fast forward, years later, two cousins, one of them whose name is, Ignacio and accidentally finds this same cave, where one of them gets trapped. It just so happens their grandmother is the head of one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico, and leaves her grandson for dead but he survives as he gained a superpower from the crystals. By the end of the first issue, Ignacio is all grownup and fighting crime as superhero, but little does he know, someone else survived the cave.

Overall, some great introductions to these characters and to this vast world where this excellent story takes place. The story by Rodriguez is intricate, fun and takes turns where the reader does not expect to go. The art by Guillermo Villareal is gorgeous and makes the characters pop off the page. Altogether, a great book, which will keep the readers coming back for this very different story in a very familiar world.

Story: Hector Rodriguez III Art: Guillermo Villareal
Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10 Recommendation:Buy

Texas Latino Comic Con Comes to Dallas in July

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texas-latino-comic-conOur stories matter.

The first ever Texas Latino Comic Con is coming to Dallas Texas July 29th. In collaboration with the Latino Cultural Center of Dallas, this comic convention is a first of its kind in Texas highlighting Latino artists, writers and creators in the comic book community. The convention will feature local artistic talent, a Latino character centered cosplay contest, and special guests. The event will be free for the public. The convention is a joint venture between Dusk Comics and Rio Bravo Comics.

One of the first guest announcements is the creator of El Peso Hero, Hector Rodriguez. El Peso Hero has been one the most internationally talked about Latino superhero in decades. With modern social issues such immigration, human trafficking and institutional corruption, El Peso Hero has garnered attention and praise from the Latino community and been featured on Univision, CNN, Telemundo, Fusion, CW, La Reforma, PRI The World and countless of other media sites worldwide. It has even won the prestigious Emmy Award for best news story by Univision news anchor Angel Pedrero and has won an award by the Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for
most innovative book. Among the appeal of the comic book is that El Peso Hero speaks only Spanish. All of the other characters in the comic book speak English. It is important to portray rich diversity.

The other guest announcement is Eliamaria M. Crawford, originally of San Angelo, Texas. Starting at a very young age Elia always had a passion. First in high school started drawing stick figure doodles as her primary go‐ and eventually started, what‐was, her Elia in a Box Webcomic then. She also had the privilege of drawing comics for her high school newspaper, the Campus Corral. Then in college she drew comics for the university newspaper, The Shorthorn, and started doing custom & freelance work. That is when Elia in a Box Comics, the brand, took off and she started doing cool projects from custom wedding graphics, to convention poster art, and even contributing comics to many zines and projects. From college she eventually did the hit book “Humans Really Irritate Me,” a collection of quotes of UTA’s Dr Allan Saxe, drawn in Elia’s unique style.