＊NEW BOOK ALERT＊ This beauty is being printed as we speak (the pictured is a mockup): 272 full colour pages with the best stories from the Mundo Mendo website. Foreword by @craigmod.com Presale is open at MundoMendo.com/books Become a SEMIBOLD (or BOLD Member) to get it for free. 🚚 Shipping s

Just found out there are only TWO copies of this limited edition zine I made with pal @adehogan of our last trip to Seoul. It was a limited edition of 100 so thanks to the 98 people who bough it! www.luismendo.com/booksshop/p...

The road to happiness is paved with a million pieces of cheap paper. A hack to boost your lack of productivity. www.mundomendo.com/surroundyo...

“My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing." Peter Falk #BOTD

I am busy working on the first MundoMendo.com book, handling all aspects of the process from writing and drawing to design and printing but it’s the support of the MundoMendo members what made this possible. Bunkobon sized & printed in Japan. The cover is just a mockup. Will change.

Hi everyone! Today is #kidlitartpostcard day! ☻ I’m Juliana Salcedo, a Colombian illustrator based in Spain. I love to work with limited palettes and clean lines, and I am fond of typography. I’m repped by Susan Hawk @ UpstartCrow Literary ✒︎ www.jusabar.net #kidlit #kidlitart

@edzitron.com I guess you’ve seen this one www.honest-broker.com/p/is-the-bub...

The ambition of Substack to become another social network when social networks are dying is truly puzzling.

Wrote an open letter to the morons who kill children

😳 Made a final selection of stories for the 1st printed book version of MundoMendo and it’s going to be 276 pages!

I'm about to launch something I've been meaning to do for a while now, and that's to start a monthly newsletter that will include updates on all my activities in Shanghai. If interested, I'm calling it M31, and you can subscribe here: rumi.cat/m31 I'll launch the first edition in a week or so.

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After one year of running MundoMendo, I have learned that creating your own channel is essential for creatives. 🎁 Free article

As you all know, I have the free newsletter -THE ILLUSTRATED- where I showcase illustration talent I like. pencilbooth.com/takes/bb40bc... Image by Alone Lee

I dreamt we were living in a beautiful barter society where money didn’t really exist and the only rich people were the truly clever ones. What a dream.

Where @craigmod.com visits Karuizawa and we dine talking about hemorrhoids, kidney stones and maintaining an audience happy. www.mundomendo.com/amanwhowalks...

I asked Anthropic’s Claude a simple question and it got very close to say they were doing something illegal. Read the whole here claude.ai/share/8afdb5...

For those who haven't joined MundoMendo.com yet (well, also for the ones who did), the book is in the making. You know: paper, bound pages, inks… the works.

Because we all can use some magic in our lives, now there's a convenience store where all kinds of sorcery is sold: a hairspray to improve your intellect, a pink pill for instant career success, a pair of socks to cure all illnesses…

Illustrators with questions about agents will love to read this piece.

This is the reason I built my MundoMendo.com More interaction, less stress, space to concentrate in making for people who care.

Que alegría ver en el último número de #TheIllustrated de @luismendo.com a la maravillosa y fantástica @lunapan.bsky.social 💕 Además comparte número con Chalzea Xu y Qu! Maravilla! Hay tanta preciosidad en esta publicación que se te saltan las lágrimas de gozo! pencilbooth.com/takes/624d8b...

I wished I was a prolific as Qu. She's an amazing young artist and I can't wait to get the English edition of her book.

*Important Things aren't Things* Where I explain why I am richer than Musk, you can see me stumble miserably down a dusty hill and you get a good peek into how I feel about being a father.

The friendly and knowledgeable friends of @truegrittexture.bsky.social have written a great GUIDE TO DRAWING TABLETS you might want to read before buying a drawing device. www.truegrittexturesupply.com/blogs/news/h...

Support living artists. The dead ones don't need it anymore. Great support from the always good @creativeboom team

i signed this! thank you to the organizers 🫧 writers with published books & people who work in publishing, including agents, librarians, booksellers, illustrators, & more, y’all can also sign the letter here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...

I have created a few random Mr Mendos to illustrate the homepage of www.MundoMendo.com They will rotate and populate the home randomly every few weeks. Thanks for the magic programming skills to @jakegiltsoff who does a wonderful job generously assisting me with these things 💛

Happy to confirm that PauseTalk Vol. 97 is now set for Thursday, July 24, at Bananafish Books, as always. Looking forward to it! For more info on PauseTalk: PauseTalk.org

"I'd consider it impossible to visit places without affecting you. The sounds are different, the food is different, the air is different. But for visual artists it goes so much deeper: the color changes, the light, the graphics, the art, the writing…"

*Flying Lessons* — Where a friend goes to Morocco on a meditation retreat, Nicolas Cage goes to Vietnam to become of age, and a bunch of swallows teach me how to draw. https://www.mundomendo.com/flyinglessons/

Have you ever experienced the horror of having the muses breaking up with you? I bet you have, it's part of being a creative. It would make me happy if you would print out one of these panels and hang it to your mirror (or above your desk) to cheer you up. https://www.mundomendo.com/mymuseleftme/

LIFE PERMEATES WORK - Where I ponder about what determines one's style, I realize having friends with taste is more important than having money and that objects, after all, may be able to make you happy. https://www.mundomendo.com/lifepermeateswork/

Once a year, it's good to remind myself how going solo was the best decisions of my life. 20 years to date

I know @procreate.com is one but would love to see a list of others too.

My love for Georges Beuville work is huge. Not many know the work of this French master but Christophe Swijsen @ink_of_nowhere DIY made this gorgeous book just to honour him 💛 https://youtu.be/7A1QDVtL9_U?si=zaWLbFu9LXTEUPEo

A new edition of THE ILLUSTRATED is available, if you're in need of illustrators. https://pencilbooth.com/takes/e46947bd-845a-4419-99be-29d0bca417c4

Imagine going to a restaurant and having to pay for the whole menu although you only ate 1 dish. Now imagine you forcefully do this every month and they feed you potatoes although you are allergic to them. That’s what @adobe.com do to their customers arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Start Book One — Where I announce an upcoming book, explain the real goals of MundoMendo and ponder about the state of the publishing industry today. https://www.mundomendo.com/startbookone/

Celebrating the fact that he started following me, let me highly recommend @jonathanames.bsky.social books: the whole Happy Doll series is terrific. I’d love to make a comic version off them one day. Now reading his other books 💛. You might know him as the writer of the Bored To Death show.

Sunday, 2pm, I will be at the downtown Public Library in LA w/ Mary Steenburgen & Ted Danson. Fun fact: Mary & Ted used to be involved, years ago, with a Gregory Peck hosted reading series at the same library. Well, on we go... lfla.org/event/karmad...

At the Caro Carrowack launch, the fine @wired.com Japan interviewed @djbradfield.bsky.social and me (sorry the article is in Japanese). wired.jp/article/caro...

The fine people at @tokyocheapo.com came out of the city to interview me. https://tokyocheapo.com/editorial/creatives-in-japan-coffee-with-luis-mendo/

Since friends keep asking how the move to the mountains outside of Tokyo is going, I think it's time for an early reflection. https://www.mundomendo.com/makingalittlebirdhouseinmysoul/

If you ever planned to move houses, do a simple A to B and don't add more houses into the mix. A brief update of how my little family and I made the jump outside of Tokyo. And how is it going. https://www.mundomendo.com/moved/

Issue 2 of The Illustrated is up. All Japanese illustrators this time. https://pencilbooth.com/takes/90d44b0a-0a8c-45bb-8a82-83a06e42f247

*New Work* In the latest issue of Saga Magazine in the UK, you can find this illustrations about elderly abuse.

Issue 1 of The Illustrated is out, highlighting the work of @katherinelam.bsky.social @jenniferdionisio.com and Cristina Estanislao https://pencilbooth.com/takes/c89a408d-0d2c-4cb0-8402-1f722168c1c2

We’ll be at the Amsterdam museumplein sundaymarket tomorrow April 20. Come say hi:)