Every Body is Different
From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama · University of Texas Press · 2024
A comics anthology in which writers and artists from across the US explore food and sports as touchstones of the Latin American diaspora — from grandmother's recipes to lucha libre rings. I contributed a single autobiographical page titled "What Is Sport?"
About my page
A personal comic about body image, cultural food, and finding movement. Growing up feeling too weird for sports — couldn't swing, couldn't dribble — I found skating at twelve. The page weaves together fast food, family BBQs, and ancestral cuisine to show how those worlds collide in the diaspora.
About the anthology
In the vein of Frederick Luis Aldama's Tales from la Vida, over fifty contributors offer slice-of-life comics in an array of styles — capturing the common threads that bind a dizzyingly diverse community. From a simple quesadilla eaten hot on the way to school, to the unifying surge of soccer fandom, the book is a mosaic of Latinx identity and life today.
