Venezuelan Flavor in da haus!

Hey people! I'm Leo, the new guy, I've been invited to share my works with all of you! I'm new in this blog stuff, just started a month ago with mine. So thanx a lot!!! I'll try my best.

The guy upthere with the lady is Machera, "El Santo Malandro" in english would be somethin' like "The Holy Gangsta". Malandro is a latinamerican word for the criminals who live in the ghettos or "barrios" as we say. Machera was the aka of the toughest one of Mérida, a lil' town in Venezuela, where I am from. He lived, robbed, killed and helped a lot of people in the 70's and was the leader of the harder gang in the town. People says when he was alive he used to help his people, his neighborhood, and he's famous for his robbing the rich to feed the poor, like Robin Hood but in a 70' groovy style. He was murdered by the cops at 21 years old in 1977, 180 bullets, and now, the merideñan people praise him to solve any kind of troubles, love, study, money, illness, food, drugs, another gangs, any kind of situations. He got a little chapel in the local cementery. Obviously, the catholic church says he's kinda devil and we're all wrong... Just in case, when you'll rise a pray for him, please light a cigarrette and let it stand alone in a dark corner...


I drew this one with my left hand and it looks quite simple but I like sooo much coz' It's more alive, this was the cover of the first issue of our comic magazine here in Venezuela...

BTW, sorry for my sad english, you'll notice i'm not from here.. :)