I was working as a slave

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I was working as a slave

© 2010 Armando Salas. --- The 80s were the most productive time in my whole entire life. I think I never worked so hard because then my main activity was as employed in a bank . A publishing house was buying almost 100 % of my production and they luckily liked all my stuff :-). Puzzles, illustrations, comic strips, cartoons, covers... Entire magazines, this was my work. LABERINTO DE LETRAS (40 pages) was one of these magazines, published every two weeks. I had to do everything: to invent and write the puzzles, games, crosswords ... and also made all the illustrations. Upper image: Cover. Pen, india ink, tempera and Letraset. Bottom image: Page. Puzzle and two "SABÍA QUE....?" ( = "DID YOU KNOW...?") (my version of Ripley's "BELIEVE IT OR NOT...". Pen, brush, india ink and Letraset.

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Seth Weaver

Seth Weaver 16 Mar 2010

Amazing and stunning work my friend. You can work like a slave but be as happy as a king to be able to do what you love. You got to make money first to pay the bills. I know I've been there too.

Mary Janosik

Mary Janosik 16 Mar 2010

Love the black on black!!! Very coy-ish!! My dad said "They don't call it work for nothing....!!! If you want something bad enough, it's worth it!!"

Anneke Hut

Anneke Hut 16 Mar 2010

Armando, this shows again that you have always been the most impressive and original artist! And most productive, that too!! :)

Alberto D'Assumpcao

Alberto D'Assumpcao 15 Mar 2010

But you did in fact a fantastic work... as a slave!:-))) Next crossword magazine I'll buy I must check for a Sala's magazine and I'm sure it will be a quality one!!!

Armando Salas
Artist Reply: Oh, no, Alberto: no more puzzles, please!!! :-) It's a tiring work, something for young people; I already am a "perro viejo" :-) Once in Lisboa I saw people from Cabo Verde or Angola working on streets. They were placing pebbles (not sure about this word; we say ADOQUINES in Spanish). Well: adoquines and puzzles, the same tiring work:-)
thea walstra

thea walstra 15 Mar 2010

You are a busy, multi talented guy Armando. I think your life is a rich one (I don't mean money), but I think also tough from time to time. You know I admire your work nightowl :)

Nelly van Nieuwenhuijzen

Nelly van Nieuwenhuijzen 15 Mar 2010

you are an amazing artist!!! so impressed by all you are doing and did and will do! fantastic.

Armando Salas
Artist Reply: While scanning the magazine I had a flash: I found the lady a bit Nellyish. What do you think?
Armando Salas
Artist Reply: Forgot. Well, about "all I shall do" I just was planning an orgy with teenagers, alcohol, drugs and tobacco. For sure I'll impress you!!! :-))) LOL!
Sharon Gonzalez

Sharon Gonzalez 15 Mar 2010

WOW YOU MUST HAVE BEEN UP DAY & NIGHT, ARMANDO. AT LEAST YOUR BRAIN MUST HAVE BEEN WORKING 24 HOURS A DAY TO CREATE. VERY AWESOME AND SO REWARDING I BET. AND AS YOU CREATED, MORE FLOWED TO FILL IN THE ALREADY DONE SPOT. YES?,

Armando Salas
Artist Reply: Hi, Sharon. Since I had to work seven hours daily in a bank (8:00 - 15:00) all these works were made on evening-night. It was easy: As the month started I planned how many works to do every day and never went to bed until the pages were finished. This means: sometimes I went to bed at 11:00, sometimes at 2:00, 3:00... Huge stress during 5-6 years but this was my choice. If I couldn't do the work, another artist could do it, do you understand? This is why I talk about SLAVERY :-) I also built "pyramids" :-))))
Maria Anna Machado

Maria Anna Machado 15 Mar 2010

fantastic...slave of art...life beautiful...love the humility of your words....

Emily Reed

Emily Reed 15 Mar 2010

What a tremendous life as an artist you live! Thank you for these glimpses into your lifelong work. They are very moving and touching.

Olga van Dijk

Olga van Dijk 15 Mar 2010

I agree totally with Calvin.... 40.000 works..... incredible! Is there already an "Armando Salas Museum" somewhere on this planet? ~Love and Light, OLGA

Armando Salas
Artist Reply: I always have been so fast at work and the practice for many years improved the natural skill. In the 80s my children were very young and I had a mortgage and some loans more. Solution: to work or to become a delinquent :-). Unfortunately most of my original work are lost. I preserve approximately 6.000, comic strips most of them. From time to time I receive a letter from some stranger who says that he has one of my works hung on his wall and it makes me happy: his home is one of the "museums" where my work is displayed. As for museums, my work already is in Ticonderoga Cartoon Museum (Ticonderoga), Cartoon Art Museum (San Francisco), Museo do Humor de Fene (Spain) and museum Dom na Humora i Satirata (Gabrovo - Bulgaria).
Calvin McFarlane

Calvin McFarlane 15 Mar 2010

For the third time.....Armando, you are The Man! and boy oh boy do i remember letraset.

Ropati Leaso-Cobb

Ropati Leaso-Cobb 15 Mar 2010

Wow..well its good to see all that talent was put to work...gosh what a huge Job Armandos!!

Armando Salas
Artist Reply: Hi, Ropati. The huge job was specially tedious sometimes because most of it was done for publishing purposes. In that time I had to draw 500 puzzles and games every month ... and there were no computers then. All the lettering work was done by sticking letraset (transferable alphabets)