Artists are the foundations of the comics conventions, and you will find plenty of them there. Still, others have no plans to attend any as they have projects to finish. Writer and cartoonist Luis Montero (http://virumca.com/graforismos/) of Madrid, Spain, is one of them. He has an amusing cartoon called "ojos gemelos: graforismos" (twin eyes: graforisms) featuring an eyeball who has "escaped the tyranny of his body." Both the English and Spanish versions can be read at ComicSpace.com (http://www.comicspace.com/twineyes/).

Asked about summer projects, Luis responded, "I have a couple of interesting projects for this summer relating to my ojos. First, I'm gonna release an animated short film, about four minutes long. At the moment it's called "Eye Paradise," but that's still a working title. It's kind of a surreal thriller about three cops prosecuting an eye who has escaped its former body, everything, ...done in a film noir style. The premiere will take place in an art gallery here in Madrid.

"And secondly, I'm gonna release an animated music video for an independent Spanish band called Mano de Santo. The music is kind of Pet Shop Boys, but the video is a tribute to a '50s French movie, "Le ballon rouge" [The Red Balloon]. It's a nice story about a lonely boy who finds a red balloon and becomes close friends."

la entrevista, aparecida en Latino LA, se puede leer aquí.