Luis Mendo
@luismendo.com
Drawer and writer at large, from a tiny studio in 🇯🇵
www.luismendo.com/links
www.luismendo.com/links
On today’s @elpais.com this scene illustrating an article about the amount of city folks choosing to move to the countryside. Having done the move myself recently, I knew I wanted to express the awkwardness it meant for an urban family like us to adapt.
elpais.com/eps/2025-11-...
elpais.com/eps/2025-11-...
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
On today’s @elpais.com this scene illustrating an article about the amount of city folks choosing to move to the countryside. Having done the move myself recently, I knew I wanted to express the awkwardness it meant for an urban family like us to adapt.
elpais.com/eps/2025-11-...
elpais.com/eps/2025-11-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Darlings. The book is almost here. Last week we visited the printers and checked how they were coming along.
Preorder here: www.mundomendo.com/books/
Preorder here: www.mundomendo.com/books/
October 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Darlings. The book is almost here. Last week we visited the printers and checked how they were coming along.
Preorder here: www.mundomendo.com/books/
Preorder here: www.mundomendo.com/books/
Slice of my life as seen from the @moodcamera.bsky.social app lense
October 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Slice of my life as seen from the @moodcamera.bsky.social app lense
＊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
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
October 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
＊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
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...
www.luismendo.com/booksshop/p...
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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...
www.luismendo.com/booksshop/p...
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.
Bunkobon sized & printed in Japan. The cover is just a mockup. Will change.
September 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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.
Bunkobon sized & printed in Japan. The cover is just a mockup. Will change.
😳 Made a final selection of stories for the 1st printed book version of MundoMendo and it’s going to be 276 pages!
August 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
😳 Made a final selection of stories for the 1st printed book version of MundoMendo and it’s going to be 276 pages!
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...
Read the whole here claude.ai/share/8afdb5...
August 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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...
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.
August 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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.
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 💛
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 💛
June 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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 💛
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 💛
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/
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/
June 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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/
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/
Once a year, it's good to remind myself how going solo was the best decisions of my life.
20 years to date
20 years to date
June 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Once a year, it's good to remind myself how going solo was the best decisions of my life.
20 years to date
20 years to date
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/
https://www.mundomendo.com/moved/
April 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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/
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
https://pencilbooth.com/takes/90d44b0a-0a8c-45bb-8a82-83a06e42f247
April 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Issue 2 of The Illustrated is up. All Japanese illustrators this time.
https://pencilbooth.com/takes/90d44b0a-0a8c-45bb-8a82-83a06e42f247
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.
April 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
*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
https://pencilbooth.com/takes/c89a408d-0d2c-4cb0-8402-1f722168c1c2
April 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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
https://pencilbooth.com/takes/c89a408d-0d2c-4cb0-8402-1f722168c1c2
I just launched a free service to discover illustration talent. Handpicked with an art director's eye, unbiassed and including direct links to the artists so you can immediately contact / commission them.
http://theillustrated.org
http://theillustrated.org
April 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I just launched a free service to discover illustration talent. Handpicked with an art director's eye, unbiassed and including direct links to the artists so you can immediately contact / commission them.
http://theillustrated.org
http://theillustrated.org
After our move outside of Tokyo, I had to give up my studio. As a way to honor it and my time there, I wanted to have a good record of the space.
https://www.mundomendo.com/odetomytokyostudio/
https://www.mundomendo.com/odetomytokyostudio/
April 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
After our move outside of Tokyo, I had to give up my studio. As a way to honor it and my time there, I wanted to have a good record of the space.
https://www.mundomendo.com/odetomytokyostudio/
https://www.mundomendo.com/odetomytokyostudio/
Things happen when you go out in Tokyo to buy bread, hoping to get ideas for a comic: serendipity, birds and bread have interesting ways of intertwining.
https://www.mundomendo.com/thedayiwentsearchingforbreadandanideabutbumpedintoazakkyo
https://www.mundomendo.com/thedayiwentsearchingforbreadandanideabutbumpedintoazakkyo
April 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Things happen when you go out in Tokyo to buy bread, hoping to get ideas for a comic: serendipity, birds and bread have interesting ways of intertwining.
https://www.mundomendo.com/thedayiwentsearchingforbreadandanideabutbumpedintoazakkyo
https://www.mundomendo.com/thedayiwentsearchingforbreadandanideabutbumpedintoazakkyo
A blast. Caro Carrowack book was launched last weekend at the wonderful Dover Street Market Ginza with a party filled with wonderful (and stylish!) people. Very grateful to author @djbradfield, the great DSMG (stars!) and everyone who showed up and bought the book. THANK YOU.
Photos by Alex Abian
Photos by Alex Abian
April 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A blast. Caro Carrowack book was launched last weekend at the wonderful Dover Street Market Ginza with a party filled with wonderful (and stylish!) people. Very grateful to author @djbradfield, the great DSMG (stars!) and everyone who showed up and bought the book. THANK YOU.
Photos by Alex Abian
Photos by Alex Abian
Next to the book, records and merch, we had these beauties made for us and can’t believe how alive they feel
March 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Next to the book, records and merch, we had these beauties made for us and can’t believe how alive they feel
Finally we got our hands on the finalized
RECORD and BOOK, these images don't come close to how pretty they turned out. To be launched officially this weekend at Dover St Market in Tokyo, now Caro Carrowack is finally alive. Thank you @djbradfield.bsky.social for allowing me to work on this.
RECORD and BOOK, these images don't come close to how pretty they turned out. To be launched officially this weekend at Dover St Market in Tokyo, now Caro Carrowack is finally alive. Thank you @djbradfield.bsky.social for allowing me to work on this.
March 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Finally we got our hands on the finalized
RECORD and BOOK, these images don't come close to how pretty they turned out. To be launched officially this weekend at Dover St Market in Tokyo, now Caro Carrowack is finally alive. Thank you @djbradfield.bsky.social for allowing me to work on this.
RECORD and BOOK, these images don't come close to how pretty they turned out. To be launched officially this weekend at Dover St Market in Tokyo, now Caro Carrowack is finally alive. Thank you @djbradfield.bsky.social for allowing me to work on this.
I added 3 copies of this –sold out & out of print– catalogue of my Seoul Mundo Mendo exhibition from my personal stash.
https://www.luismendo.com/booksshop/p/mundomendocatalogue
https://www.luismendo.com/booksshop/p/mundomendocatalogue
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I added 3 copies of this –sold out & out of print– catalogue of my Seoul Mundo Mendo exhibition from my personal stash.
https://www.luismendo.com/booksshop/p/mundomendocatalogue
https://www.luismendo.com/booksshop/p/mundomendocatalogue