Buho's Illustration corner

Hi there! I'm a Mexican Portland-based illustrator. Latin and South American folklore and mythology heavily influence my work! I take inspiration from all myths, both historic and contemporary.

Page taken from my comic, "Todo los Animalitos y sus Dioses".

Comic Project:
Todos los Animalitos y sus Dioses

After a massive ecological event destroys central Mexico, the ancient Mexica deities, also known as the Teteo, are split on what to do next. Some think humans deserve to go extinct for their greed. Others want to forever hide with the hopes that it will all go away. But the goddess of beauty, Xochiquetzel, decides she wants to save humanity by any means possible. However, her efforts go wrong when she accidentally turns half of the surviving population into "animalitos", nagual creatures with strange alebreje-like patterns.

Nowadays, strange creatures roam the vast desert lands. Various communities of finders and burialists arise from all parts of Mexico, determined to keep count of the missing humans and determine if they are dead or have turned into an animalito. They scout deserts and ghost towns, looking for human remains to perform burials in their honor, and bring closure to their families.

Amongst the loud chaos, a mysterious oil-leaking monster known as La Salamandra begins attacking the surviving pueblos, leaving death and destruction in its wake. A young man arises from the nowhere lands, consumed by an all-consuming obsession with hunting down La Salamandra. But after being chased down by a group of rogue bandits, he finds himself prone and empty-handed in the vast Sonora desert, forced to join a strange group of finders who offer to help him if he aids them in their scouting efforts.

Now in their debt, he must help them by performing 100 burials.

This is a story about colonialism, repatriation, and ecological policy in Mexico.

This is a story about burials.