Welcome to the first post of From the Brain of DAMC. I'm David Antonio Morales Castillo (DAMC), and im the creator of Leo, the protagonist of the webcomic Der Kaiser ist kaputt (kaiserkaputt.blogspot.mx, and @kaiserkaputt on facebook).
Oh... You have no idea who Leo is? Yeah... I know. Mostly is my own fault that Leo hasn't reached success in all this years, but if i may, i can explain a little bit about who he is.
First of all, let me show you a picture of him:
His childhood wasn´t the best, being raised by his maternal aunts after his parents death on a car accident when he was 7.
Despite the represive, catholic enviroment and the fact of him being the only man among four mature women and one girl 8 months younger, his cousin, the nameless Bitch (as he chooses to remember her due to her betrayal against him when they were 15 years old), he was always confident on his gender and sexuality. He was born a male homosexual who craved freedom and was in no way sold to any religion or superstition. However, he does have a system of beliefs backed on his own experiences... But that's a story for another time.
Leo parted ways with his remaining family by the time he turned 16 and since then he commited to seek, own and explode all of his pleassures and the fabled freedom he heard about all through out his childhood.
That paints a rather dull image of him, doesn't it? Just a regular whoever with a downer backstory, but that's because you don't know about the other side of Leo. See, he was born knowing things. It would be long to list the ammount of things he knew from the start, but sufficient to say he understands the different levels of existence and the way they interact. He knows the things roaming the world that humans ignore. And he has dominion on areas of the mind accesible only to those who have left their bodies behind.
But i wont spoil it, the true nature of who and what Leo is will be widely explored in Der Kaiser ist kaputt.
But i can tell you how Leo came to be. You see, i always drew, since i was very little. My parents had the good idea of exposing me to art and comic books in my early years, and i was forever sold to the world of art, and from it, the closest to me was always drawing. I never really took proper lessons, other than whatever petty instructions on how to use a piece of paper and a pencil you get in kinder garten; i simply liked to let my mind run wild and command my arm and hand to translate on paper my daydreams.
With elementary school came the tons of requests from classmates to draw he-mans, Lion-o's and Batmans. A lot of fun to do, and sometimes even paid, but i always came back to my daydreams and castles when i was alone, but i started noticing around 1989 that i started drawing the same person in all of my daydreams. A guy, scruffy looking, slim with thick eyebrows.
That was Leo, and soon i realised he was a proyection of myself, an alter ego, or an avatar to live in the world that was mine entirely and nobody else's.
As the years went by, the focus of my drawings became that odd guy, and before i knew, i started building little stories around him. I made jokes and dialogues with him, mostly on my friends' notebooks or birthday cards.
When i was 16, this guy and i had our first disagreements. Somehow he had developed his own personality paralel to mine. So i kept him alive out of respect and admiration, my own little creation, alive!
The name came many years later in a hushed encounter in a dark room in Mexico city. It was 2002, i think. I was bored and about to leave the club when i spotted the guy, handsome, with dark hair and deep eyes like ive never seen before. I followed him and caught him... And it happened of course.
Being with him felt neccesary, in my gut i knew this guy was gonna give me something of value.
In all honesty, just the sex could have been good enough, but right after, he whispered in my ear: I'm Leo, and walked out.
I followed him, but i couldnt find him again, weird, but typical in the gay scene. However, what he said stuck with me. I know he was just stating his name, probably, but to me it sounded much more profound than that. Leonardo is a name i always respected and liked, being that i tend to acquire my knowledge and skills on my own like the fabled DaVinci did in his time.
What happened next is easy to guess. I went home dazzed and hoping for an answer that arrived in the form of an old drawing of "my guy".
And that's the story, that's how Leo got his name.There is a last name, of course, he is not a dog, but just like much of his story, it will be revealed in the pages of Der Kaiser, if i feel like revealing it, thats it.
So, yeah, i think this is good enough for the first post.
Needless to say, this blog will be mostly (mostly) dedicated to Leo and his universe ( which i promise is really cool and vast), but every now and then i will show off other projects and works related to this amazing world of the webcomic creation.
DAMC out.
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