The Mesh
Posted on July 21, 2025 by Juan

New comic: ‘Anastasia’

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Juan

This latest installment is a comic I made for an ephemeral art show, based around the concept of ‘sexualities outside the norm’. It was fun to hang these pages on the walls along erotic themed paintings, installations and a live performance of someone in a cage, totally covered by a rubber suit and blindly being fed gummy bears by the guests.

I hope you like the story and wish you all a wonderful week.

J.

The Secret Notes 02-Aug-17

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Juan

 

While the new comic isn’t done yet, I’d like to share a few monster I drew walking around my hometown in non apologetic two dimensional style:


That one is casually strolling  a couple of blocks away from where I live, and this one


is going up Mapocho river, which goes across Santiago, and these ones


look a bit puzzled by the archs at an old downtown boulevard, while this guy


checks his social media while walking home, at Barrio Yungay.

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If you follow me elsewhere you may have seen some of these recently, which reminds me to update my links in case you want to keep up with small things I post in social networks:

I’m on Instagram here, where I post these monsters, sketches and photos of my now recovering black cat and myself

There’s always this Facebook Secret Knots page 

I’ve been posting every comic on Tumblr too, where they seem to have found a growing audience, which of course makes me really glad

And here’s me on Twitter, which I use, what’s the word… austerely?

As a coda: there’s a recent interview with me on youtube nicely done by a YT channel focused on Chilean cartoonists, only in spanish I’m afraid, more so in Chilean spanish which often sounds like a dialect to other spanish speakers.

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I’m starting to plot in a serialized way again, to devise some connections among upcoming stories. This may be the influence of a recent reading of Thomas Ligotti stories on one hand, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and the fact that I really really want to make a book. I expect to lay the axis for two branches of future stories, but it’s all in a planning stage still. To thicken the plot further, a very old idea -back from when I started with Secret Knots ten years ago!- has came back to haunt me, probably in the form of periodical small doses. If it proves to be a functional idea in the sketches I should start running it around October.

That’s all for now, I’ll get back to you soon with medieval doodles for some, and a new comic about a shady roommate, loosely based in real life as most of these things go. Thanks a lot, once more, and may you have the loveliest week.

J.

New Comic: “Souvenir” (early look)

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Juan

It’s a new wacky tale in The Secret Knots. I hope you like it! It’ll be up by tomorrow on the Secret Knots website with added alt-text, as usual. (Haven’t you checked out the previous ones? They’re accompanied too with additional lies and extras)

Feel free to let me know if you spot some grammar oddities and typos. I have told you before how I learned English from a book I bought in one of those vanishing stores that only leave a blank wall when you try and look for them a second time, and I’m sure it included some verbs that don’t even exist in our time line.

Thanks once again for your support! Let me know if you enjoyed it and turn on a red heart in the comments below.

Juan