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Did you and Erick ever consider just putting ‘MOTRO’ together as a hardcover through Oni? You’ve been very outspoken about single issues, or “floppies”, as an entity, mostly because quite a few people wait for a book to be collected in trade. Buño is taking its time to grow up, as I’m constantly juggling writing for IDW, writing/drawing for Oni Press, drawing for other major licenses, and now editing books and communicating with creators.Ħ. UF: We are putting together an awesome line up for 2017/2018. With Rob Cham’s ‘Light’ nearly selling out upon its release, this imprint is certainly off to a killer start. What’s the current status of Buño? Last summer, you announced Buño with Magnetic Press. That whole generations have become deformed by traumas.ĥ. UF: That I’ve become permanently altered by traumas I’ve undergone as a child. It’s more about discarded memories and ruins and disconnection from your past.Ĥ. What kind of societal fears are you looking to face in ‘MOTRO’? But that doesn’t really factor in to how I write MOTRO. UF: I would love to have all of the world’s population be crammed into a megacity, and outside is an untouched natural world. Is your work a window into your feelings about our hyper-populated world?

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It’s the pet, the animal that was the perfect companion, the one whose death signals the end of innocent ignorance.ģ. I look at your work and I see a prevailing motif of widescreen vistas, crammed so full of people that the architecture that surrounds them - which looks like it hasn’t been taken care of in some time - appears as though it’s about to be trampled into the dust.

UF: Wheelie Beast is the pet you had as a little kid. Do these characters simply share a fraternal, “Frodo and Samwise” friendship? Because I picked up on a more of a”Ittō and Daigorō” vibe in this circumstance. My childhood never ended just because my adulthood began.Ģ. When we first meet him in this Oni Press edition, we see Motro weeping silently in his sleep, and here comes this tiny motorcycle, telling him it’s time to eat. I like dragons, I like motorcycles, I like frogs and wizards, so I just mix it all together and see what comes out. Ulises Fariñas:I think neither? I don’t really think of fantasy as a genre that has hard rules for what you can and can’t do. When you construct the world of ‘MOTRO’, do you approach fantasy with an adult mind (knowing what you want to avoid or rehash), or do you reach back to the sensibilities and instincts you had as a child? These are fantasy tropes, and yet you seem beleaguered by fantasy as a genre. In ‘MOTRO’, we follow the exploits of a lone wanderer and his clicking and whirring motorcycle companion in a hellish winter landscape. Art by Ulises Fariñas and Ryan Hill/Oni Pressġ. Ulises Fariñas took time out of his schedule to answer my questions about MOTRO and the future of his Buño imprint with Magnetic Press.Ĭover to ‘MOTRO’ Volume One. “ I like dragons, I like motorcycles, I like frogs and wizards, so I just mix it all together and see what comes out.” So if you’re looking to get to the root of what the artist is trying to say with this series, well. “ I don’t really think of fantasy as a genre that has hard rules for what you can and can’t do,” he says. Ulises Fariñas will even tell you that this series, co-written by Erick Freitas and published by Oni Press, isn’t something that can be constrained by typical designations. You get the feeling that, when you label MOTRO as a fantasy, you’re kind of painting it into a corner. Howard or George Miller during MOTRO‘s many moments of stylized violence. We’re coming around to the idea that MOTRO is something else. Even when your eyes tell you there’s a bit of Hayao Miyazaki and Katsuhiro Otomo flowing through Fariñas’ pen, or when your heart is thumping in time with Robert E. Only don’t try too hard to make sense out of all of this stunning mayhem, at least not with the familiar archetypes found in the more comfortable places of myth. It’s like DoomRocket contributing writer Brad Sun said in his November 2016 review of MOTRO #1: “ There’s something strangely familiar about the fanciful world of ‘MOTRO’.” Let’s consider the melting pot of ideas that is Ulises Fariñas’ MOTRO. Stark winterscapes populated by garishly armored brigands, talking pieces of machinery, and a boy who would be king.