Luis Mendo

📚I'm running low on Mundo Mendo Book One copies. The limited edition of 1000 (numbered and signed) will not be reprinted ever again so order if you wanted one. Book Two comes out in October. MundoMendo members get all books automagically 👀. Thanks to all members and those who bought the book alread

Look at this thing! @luismendo.com's second (and peachier) issue of Mundo Mendo is out and includes a foreword by yours truly. www.mundomendo.com/books

Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out. “The only website that once a year becomes a book.” I have Book One and it’s lovely… [mundomendo.com]

Dear fellow artists! Keeping track of what you sell at art events can be tough. I used to have a paper list but often got lost at the end. I made myself a little tool to keep track of what's been sold. Info stays on your device. Please use it for free. www.mundomendo.com/booth-sales/ Happy selling!

Where I tell the story about how I lost an expensive tooth and a family of fungi who was living under it. It includes 🍄, 🍆 & of course 🦷. 👨‍⚕️👨🏽‍⚕️👨🏾‍⚕️👨🏻‍⚕️👩🏽‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️🧑🏽‍⚕️🧑🏽‍⚕️ 9 out of 10 dentists recommend chewing gum without sugar and a Mundo Mendo membership. www.mundomendo.com/aholeinmyjaw/

Who gets an irresistible urge to paint just a few weeks before a major book deadline? That's right: me ✌️ www.mundomendo.com/toedipping...

An afternoon strolling the 'Tokyo's Champs-Élysées' backstreets, observing humans and guessing their lives as I walked. www.mundomendo.com/aoyama-fla...

Build a character with me. A full Mundo Mendo story about designing characters, now is live and available to all at www.truegrittexturesupply.com...

I don't have a Wikipedia entry but I have now a Comiclopedia entry, which is cooler and more exclusive. It covers my whole career! www.lambiek.net/artists/m/men...

Where I use Whitman's words to illustrate my drawings and our protean (ever-shifting, hard to pin down) existence. www.mundomendo.com/icontainmu...

There's a new village coming to Amsterdam called ZUDO: Applying a line claire style (no vectors) DNCO in London commissioned me to draw it, full of references to what used to be my home city. It was a challenging but fun job.
See the whole thing on LuisMendo.com or on zudo.amsterdam

Where does this need for identifying, labeling, branding and classifying ourselves come from? Maybe the world would be better without it? www.mundomendo.com/abirdisabi...

True Grit did a great job recreating watercolors for the digital age. I helped with hands-on direction, ideas and of course the visuals for the shop. I drew these while they built the brushes. PS, Procreate and Affinity. 20% off this week. www.truegrittexturesupply.com

Today’s reason to mourn is that Peter Sellers never got to make The Phantom vs. The Fourth Reich, where he had been cast to play three characters — the Phantom, Hitler, and Hitler's son — by his own choosing. 1972 was something else.

MundoMendo members were so excited of me doing a podcast, that I had to at least try. www.mundomendo.com/forsalepod...

Updating the OS because your connection is slow might be like throwing matches to put out a fire. 66 days remaining.

I also run THE ILLUSTRATED. It's a free newsletter where I share illustration talent I find online. Here's the latest post pencilbooth.com/posts/81cbee1...

PJ Vogt and the Search Engine podcast team put out a very interesting episode about Taiwan and its importance in the world. Very recommended listen. www.searchengine.show/the-man...

I was fortunate enough to have a little bike accident the other day: it made me reflect on some things which are going to stay concealed on this piece, but I hope the incident helps you do some reflection of your own. Be water, my friends. www.mundomendo.com/an-acciden...

DISASTER ARTIST: HOW TO SURVIVE WHEN A PROJECT GETS UGLY. Another fine article from the True Grit Texture Supply folks full of advice for us art makers. www.truegrittexturesupply.com...

Queridas madrileñas y visitantes: Por aquí unos planes para la semana que viene 📝

🎙️🎧 What an honor. Giuseppe Castellano, art director, illustrator, educator, and a titan of the industry interviewed me for his Illustration Dept pod. We talked shop, life & naked! illustrationdept.com/idpodcast Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/0An1... Apple Pods podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/t...

if you have bought art/commissions/goodies from or reposted stuff from artists in the last few months you are all our hero for real thank you for real 😭 it matters so much

Sometimes, discovering the context and life of an artist is more important than discovering their art itself. Frédéric Dard is a good example. www.mundomendo.com/thegravita...

It's so good to be interviewed by good people. Listen/watch me talking about value, creativity, Japan and why publishing on socials is providing the salami between dry bread (ads). captnoffscript.com/s02-e29-lu...

Here's a checklist of things I consider when designing a character. www.mundomendo.com/thisbuilds...

Where we get to talk to Buddhasugi, one of the oldest trees in Japan. www.mundomendo.com/1800yearsa...

Mendo's book is a beautiful reminder: create what you want to create and tell your own story. Even in a world full of distractions and AI, it finds its audience. Thanks @rubenbos.co for your kindness. strook.blog/en/post?slug=23-m...

Happy to be featured on this @creativeboom piece about Handsome Provisions, a curated print shop from the @HandsomeFrank team. www.creativeboom.com/resource...

Almost two years in and I still find explaining Mundo Mendo harder than one would think www.mundomendo.com/thethingth...

Thanks everyone for your enormous support. Paper Boat reached out, apologized and paid me for the license to use the drawing. It's so sad that we have to do this shaming for something that is ours. Never let them steal from you, artists deserve better.

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. www.mundomendo.com/mostinsign...

Hot take: A society that allows convenience to overtake beauty betrays our humanity. Those in charge of ordering the dustbins shouldn't have a place at the design table. www.mundomendo.com/dontthinkn...

I have been given the chance to play with a @remarkable Paper Pro tablet and I'm loving it. A few brushes to choose from (colour and texture were added in Procreate) and a non reflective screen that looks and feels like paper, but digital. The best of all: no notifications or distractions.

My youngest daughter will start school in two weeks and I am terrified. Do all parents have the same or is it only those who had a miserable time at school themselves? www.mundomendo.com/p/6807d001...

Lovely review of the MundoMendo Book One (in Dutch) by my friend Kristof Devos devoskristof.substack.com/p/b...