Comics and Ramblings by René Ramos
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Sidereal
In my younger days we listened to vinyl record albums. LPs. We’d loan them to each other and exchange notes. I had a friend whose baseline review was which side (A or B) of the record was better. It occurs to me that in this age of streaming music, the concept of album sides is…
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Pagliaccio
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Flower Circuit
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El Sargento
My maternal grandfather, Tomas Marín, was a sergeant in the Cuban army. On eBay I found a photograph of a man in uniform who looked a lot like him, so I bought it and used it as the reference image for this drawing.
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Flying
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Una Represa de Presas
In my dream state last night, the phrase “Una represa de presas” kept coming to mind. Literally it would mean “a dam made from hunks of meat.” My dream self was amused by the phrase.
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Emmy Shafer, 1980
“Shafer was a Russian-born immigrant who had managed to survive eighteen months in a concentration camp at Dachau during the Second World War. … [She] spoke six languages, none of them Spanish.” – Nicholas Griffin, The Year of Dangerous Days
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Maggie’s Farm
I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no moreNo, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no moreWell, I wake up in the morning, fold my hands and pray for rainI got a head full of ideas that are drivin’ me insaneIt’s a shame, the way she makes me scrub the floorI ain’t gonna work…
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Doppel Man
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Jacob and Esau, Updated
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