Alzamon | Middle Grade Comics & Artwork

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Alberto González, Costa Rican 🇨🇷 children's illustrator, middle grade comics author, character designer. Not sure of what I'm doing but I do anyway. Portfolio 👉 alzamon.com Newsletter 👉 newsletter.alzamon.com Elsewhere 👉 go.alzamon.com

Still from Disney/Pixar’s 2022 movie Turning Red, where Mei and her mother are about to begin cleaning up the family’s shrine which is also a familiar business.
Summary: Boule's dad is feverishly watching a football game. Sudenly, a penalty against his team comes up, turns into a goal, the narrators says "we're out of the Cup! What a disgrace" Fuming against the match referee, Dad scolds Boule for reading comics instead of doing his homework.
Alzamon sample illustration and comics page 1/7
Screenshot of my current project in Clip Studio Paint; a 24-page self-published comic. Details to be revealed soon.
Selfie dated 2009 of yours truly at the entrance of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California.
Fill layers en clip studio
Screen capture of the aforementioned “Sharing and reuse” options on the Instagram application which you should turn off if you don’t want people to reuse your posts for AI mashups.
Drawing of a sketchbook dated 2018 featuring a bearded Smurf, in the guise of a self-caricature, holding a paper cone of frites and a Belgian flag.
Photo prise dans mon jardin, montrant mon iPad Pro et Clip Studio Paint en action. Remarquez la mini-manette : une 8BitDo. Je l'utilise pour contrôler les fonctions les plus utilisées de Clip Studio ; c'est une alternative à la Tabmate, plus chère.
A snapshot of part of my home audio system, a personal interest/hobby that has spanned for well over 3 decades. Pictured: a Marantz/Clearaudio turntable and a vacuum tube power amplifier. Below: Tube phono preamp and digital DAC components. Not pictured: custom made floor speakers.
Issue 8 of original TMNT comic on a crossover with Dave Sim's Cerebus, circa 1986.
Alzamon comics cover - Coativille
10-inch poseable Sonic the Hedgehog action collectible figure by Resaurus
“The Creative Process” Graphic bar, with arrows indicating stages of: Work begins / fuck off / panic / all the work while crying / deadline
Illustration picturing myself at the drawing board surrounded by my "paper children". Clockwise from top: Daniel, Elias, and Susana. Bonus points if you spot the capybara coffee mug.
Screen capture of iPadOS ´s Preview App from my own iPad.
Photo of my desk where I'm figuring out the ending for a short middle grade comics story using templates of my own. Hint: the kids pictured above, all OCs of mine, are protagonists.
Commodore Callback new flip phone
Ignatz, mouse character of the Krazy Kat strip by George Herriman, in his classic move of throwing a brick to Kat.
Oh hi there, it's me. Okay, mascot me. If you met me in real life, this is how I'd mostly look.
Fan art of Calvin and Hobbes in painterly style by Alberto Gonzalez (Alzamon).
Pictured: copies of a custom spread template for 9x6 inch comics size, often used for middle grade graphic novels. On the background I have my iPad loaded with a draft pdf of the text and layout, character model sheets etc.
Bea, my girl scout OC, with a bird on a grassy background.
Picture of a broken window glass with a strategically placed Band-Aid in the center.
A road sinkhole in Orotina, Costa Rica that, from top, looks like an overweight fox facing left.
Opposite view of my desk with books, figures and a Peanuts original comic strip. Mr. Charles Schulz sent it to me in 1995.
Huion tablet set up as monitor
Tom Bancroft's version of Daniel, my main OC, which I've had since he visited my country back in 2012.
Excerpt from a 2022 story pitch featuring my characters Daniel and Susana (in their old designs). I chose this page because it shows through Daniel’s boisterous, overconfident yet potentially annoying personality - but that’s just who he is!
Screencap from a documentary on Osamu Tezuka himself quoted here: "I have to do 32 pages by tomorrow morning"
Fan art illustration of mine attempting to gather most past influencing creators on me, including Woody Woodpecker, Calvin & Hobbes, Boule & Bill, Bone, Fievel Mousekewitz from An American Tail, Pogo, Sonic The Hedgehog, Animaniacs and Totoro from Studio Ghibli. Notable omissions are Garfield and The Simpsons — can't remember why I didn't include them in here.
Picture of me tabling at the La Paz School Book Fair, where I was invited to participate thanks to the Let's Go anthology book from Kids Comics Unite, the group I make part of, and of which the school library already has some copies as well.
This is a one page comic from 2022 I think featuring my main characters Daniel, Elias and Susana. What I was going after here was to address the LGBT Pride issue in a kid-friendly way, hence the rainbow colors against an otherwise gray background. It's just slapstick comedy but an idea I wanted to move forward with and so I did.
Comics page by Don Rosa showing Scrooge McDuck's fortune origins as a shoeshine boy.
Alternate cover for my Biscuit Birdies comic, where a scout girl is chased around a park by several birds including a goose and a hen.
Postcard illustration featuring my characters (first from bottom) Daniel, Susana and Elias on a spooky jungle adventure, guided by Susana's father who happens to be a rescue ranger. TizĂłn, Susana's pet coati, joins in on the action.
The same image of previous posts but now colored
Display tablet with CLIP Studio software presenting a digitally inked drawing of a cosplaying coati.
My view from my main workstation with a huge display drawing tablet and Clip Studio Paint featuring a coati character cosplaying as Indiana Jones.
One of the very first drawings of my "OC" Daniel, then named Otto, marked September 4, 1995, which actually marks his official birthday.
Hayao Miyazaki en una trágicamente célebre reunión donde le es presentada una IA para animación: “Siento fuertemente que esto es un insulto a la vida misma”
What if I told you that the Gen Xer fiftysomething who draws me as his mascot self also Hates AI passionately? (If only because he loves making art and cannot afford to be out of a job and therefore money)
Portfolio Day 1 of 4 - Several mock covers of my original middle grade comics work. Mascot self character with talking balloon: Alzamon/ Alberto Gonzalez / Visual Creations / Heredia, Costa Rica / alzamon.com
Intrincate detail of mosque entrance at Ishafan, Teheran, Iran
Sign on an art gallery installation: "Buy art from living artists. The dead ones don't need the money"
Photo capture of comic strip "Kermit" from Jules Feiffer, circa 1950. Shown is the first panel of the first strip, where Kermit looks at reader leaning against a wall, with caption "Let's say your name is Kermit and you're a genius". This strip predates much of the work Mr. Feiffer would be better known and celebrated about as a cartoonist.
Classic Mr. Incredible bright mood / dark mood meme
Cover of Kindle edition of Fresh Start, a kid's graphic novel by Gale Galligan
A Realistic (Radio Shack brand) linear tracking turntable circa early 1980s in full working condition, set on a library cabinet with a fixed led light on top. Record is Antonin Dvorak 's String Quarters by Gabrielle string quartet, a 1983 Decca release.
Graphic - The creative process
A gathering of my local comics authors group at an equally geeky comics store, complete with Pikachu impersonator. Below, the usual troupe of freaks whose some of them also happen to be longtime meatspace friends of mine. / San Jose, Costa Rica, March 1, 2026.
An assortment of handmade stickers featuring my kid characters in various poses. The character stickers feature a qr code pointing to my own website. And the rest are Valentines spinoffs I decided to release for stock purposes.