Mexica Manga

My name is Louise Fogerty; I was born in 1994 in Bedfordshire, (UK) and grew up in the Hertfordshire area where I am still residing. After finishing my A levels in 2013, I took a gap year in my education where I stand currently as a prospect animation student with lifelong hopes of entering into the industry in the near future.

As a child, I had always been absorbed in drawing and fashioning together humorous stories in my mind given any spare moment, which all too often featured historical events or retellings of the old Viking tales of Norse Mythology. Having been introduced to Norse Mythology early on in my childhood owing to my Swedish mother, it was this that later sparked my general interest in world mythologies and in particular that of the Mexica.

‘What’s New Under Tonatiuh’ is a quirky online comic strip which I created during my gap year after a sparked interest in my comical portrayal of the Aztec gods. While the comic exists in its early days, I hope to produce it as a weekly strip exploring both humorous versions of the concepts found in the myths as well as original material involving the often daft activities of various individuals in the pantheon and the present sun god, Tonatiuh. Unwittingly, Nanahuatzin’s misfortunate calamities placed him as the figurehead of the comic strip in his mostly reincarnated form as the golden haired Tonatiuh, and this presents in itself a running gag of trouble for the little sun god.

It is worth communicating a couple of related artists I befriended on DeviantArt who share a similar passion for Aztec mythology and I would thoroughly recommend visiting their pages. Their comic strips and personal take on the Aztec gods are thoroughly entertaining for anyone who enjoys an injection of humour into well researched mythology.
Nosuku Kusunoki produces a zany Japanese manga of the Aztec gods of which an English translation can be found on her DeviantArt page. A link to her main site has also been recently featured on Mexicolore.
Marisol Aranda is a young Mexican artist who creates a weekly side-splitting comic strip cunningly named ‘Nemontemi.’ Her work has served as an inspiration for me; however it is worth noting that most of her content currently reads only in Spanish. Nevertheless it is certainly worth taking a good look at both her DeviantArt and her ingeniously creative Ask Blog.