A couple of weeks ago Juan and I did an interview with a hispanic based newspaper called Ahora Utah. The article finally went up on their site.

http://ahorautah.com/articles.php?id=2171#article

Here is an english translation of the article:

Two young Colombians won for the first time in United States first place in the contest for cartoons “Zuda Comics, DC Comic’s Invitational.”

Juan Felipe Salcedo, who is in Bucaramanga, Colombia and Gustavo Higuera, based in Los Angeles, California joined forces to create “Re-Evolution”, which is the story of Che-Huahua, an animated character based on the  small Chihuahua dog owned by Higuera.

This comic won a contract with Zuda, which publishes comic books through a website in which they undertake to provide for one year, week after week, a new chapter of the “Re-Evolution”. Now both are working very hard in the chapters that are left unfinished, and expect in the future Zuda can decide to renew the contract and perhaps one day to see Che-Huahua on the big screen alongside other superheroes .

It all started when Higuera had the idea of doing a comic of a Guerrero Chihuahua.

Salcedo explained that the plot of “Re-Evolution” is the way animals perceive the world, an apocalyptic world of large climatic changes of the earth.

In the plot reveals that the reactions have to be without the animals and how humans adapt to this new world. It is also home to the war of power between stronger and weaker, becoming a fable with a message of reflection on how man is destroying the world.

“This story was inspired by the mascot, Gustavo.” Re-Evolution “. We are left to explore the animal’s point of view and let us use the story as a kind of fable, where we try to convey the message about how we are leading the world today, “said Salcedo.

Higuera and Salcedo met through one of the largest social networks online. Higuera where he was looking for someone to help you make the animation of his comic, he found Salcedo. After the successful integration achieved and the experience of the two-Higuera in managing the Internet and Salcedo in the drawing area, was brought as a “Re-Evolution”.

“The intention in publishing Zuda departed from that desire to do something together, and seeing a chance to win a contract with DC Comics and Warner Brothers, decided to do,” said Salcedo.

Both Higuera as Salcedo emphasized that, as Latinos, it’s an honor and a privilege to win a first, and that was a good experience being so physically separated but joined by such technology and its success in winning the first place.

“For me it was a good experience because, as Juan is in Colombia and I’m Colombian, so very proud of the people here in Colombia we have been able to develop the comic and show that there are good artists and great writers in Latin America” said Higuera.

For its part Salcedo said it is a wonderful feeling of having won the event after all the adrenaline and tension experienced during the contest. He said something that helped a lot was able to hear the positive comments from the public and all the spectators.

“The plan for now is to finish this story that we have planned, but I think Zuda also plans to do big things with comics that have them,” Higuera ended.