Cassie Q

From this week forward, I want to share with you all a whole new side of Cassie, one that has been somewhat present throughout this entire comic adventure but only as a glimpse, never as the star of the story. We will learn together how a true fighter is born, from stitches and punches, sometimes swaying but never too far out. Not anymore. #comics

I'm not an spiritual person in any area of my life, with the only exception being the art process. For me it's very much a mystical experience, where I don't feel like the ideas come from me alone, but from somewhere else, some place that spontaneously offers me details that reveal things about me that I didn't completely know yet. But even if a big part of this process comes down to trust, there's also a part of the arrangement that is mine to hold, and that's the commitment

This is a special piece to me, because at first I really did hope that somehow making art and exposing myself on the internet would attract the kind of person I was waiting for, the kind who maybe is drawn to ripped fabric, and I hoped for that quite intensely when I drew this, before realizing how completely insane it sounded. Still, I think there is pride in carrying our broken ribbons on the outside, but when no one shows up in a hood, it does make you want to hide it away

Every once in a while an artist will find themselves in a rut or in a place of trying to avoid painful subjects, and maybe it's an expectation of the cartoon format but people will suggest that you 'expand' your art into whatever worldly themes going on. Or sometimes they'll suggest that without you being in a rut too. And yes, wouldn't it feel smart o be critiquing current developments? Talking only about my life does feel a little silly and self centered at times, so I felt

I never do want to draw about it, I really just want to be happy and never draw again. I really just want to lay in here and cry forever, because stupid drawings are not what I need. But then you suggest it and I don't want to but suddenly, I have an idea. #comics #TheShadow

Being honest is the ongoing challenge I took upon myself, and my main parameter to evaluate how good I consider my efforts to be. The truth is, I'm not always super sure of how I look or if I could hold that specific position I drew myself in, and even if I know for sure, I'm not always super okay with the truth about my body, and even if I am, I'm not always super sure of how to make it work aesthetically. So this is all hard to navigate, and I can't say I'm always successfu

This is a comic I did to illustrate the creation of what I think is the drawing tool that better expresses my relationship with my body. When I drew myself for the first time, my first instinct was to draw a pretty girl with a slender, symmetric figure, just like I had my entire life. I’ve never even seen art that portrayed an imperfect female body, and felt angry that now I had to learn how to trace my messed up body that would completely ruin the piece I had in mind with it

Art criticism is always a weird concept to me, because it often tries to measure the unmeasurable, and it's always somewhat arbitrary, so it really shouldn't be taken too seriously by the artist. But it's a bit of a "can't live with them, can't live without them" situation for me, because I totally feed off compliments and emotional responses. It just feels so validating! Every piece has a piece of my soul in it, and it's such an intimate process that when I finish I never qu

I'm introducing a new character here called The Shadow, who will follow me on my comic endeavors and represent the many sides to criticism. This comic was inspired by a friend of mine who is an artist and very critical of my work as well as of my personal choices in life. It's called "The Critic" and what I was trying to express here is the inhuman quality to criticism as a way to measure human worth, and how it's really just smoke, not solid, not real. If he's reading this

For those of you who don't know me, I was born and raised Brazilian, and have never lived anywhere else. So for some of the people who know me in real life, it seemed odd that I'd choose to do my art in a foreign language. Of course English has the power to reach a much larger number of people, and I have been described as ambitious, but that's more of a pleasant afterthought and not an actual reason, so I'm sharing this comic from mini Cassie to explain how it came to be. O