>DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO READERS WHO WERE OFFENDED BY THE COMIC, OR BY VIOLENT THEMES IN YOUR PAST ARTWORK?
We live in a time where people feel offended by almost everything, a time when someone who has a different opinion from that held by the mainstream takes the risk of being crucified socially, especially through what we here in Brazil call “Sofativismo” (Slacktivism), using the internet and social networks to practice these attacks from the comfort of their homes and, most often, under the shield of pseudonyms.
Well, I exposed myself to their gunfire. I created and published this story using my own name and taking the risk of suffering the ill-treatment I now receive from those who cannot stand the existence of opinions different from theirs.
As for your question about people who saw something to offend them in my gallery about a mythical and ancient kingdom of Amazons in today’s central Brazil, I must say that these people interpreted the drawings in a way totally out of context.
One of the main sources of offended comments is a post where I linked two of the various drawings I made in the 1990s as visual aids when I was writing a series of books about that mythical kingdom, based on various legends and texts written over the centuries here in Brazil about these supposed Amazons. In these two drawings, in particular, I show the violent mistreatment received by two Amazon warriors who fell in love with each other, contradicting the law and religion of their class, which was based on what would have been ordered by their chaste goddess Artemis. In the books I wrote, this religion provided severe and violent punishments for those who were against the greater principle of chastity. This class of warriors, in my books, would be some kind of “warrior nuns,” and only they had that kind of behaviour. The other classes of Amazons did not prohibit or encourage a homosexual love relationship, just accepting it naturally when they happened.
