We had the good fortune of connecting with Carlos Etcheverry and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Carlos, what led you to pursuing a creative path professionally?
Because it’s a good alchemic way of converting my fears, frustrations, negative and hateful thoughts into potentially profitable things that aren’t necessarily lethal or poisonous to humans or animals.

It has also brought me huge amounts of joy.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I was a Venezuelan farmboy drawing underground comics in the early 2000’s and every minute of it I was aware nothing was going to be easy for me, My comics are so strange they ended up bringing me to L.A. as a fine artist, to have a show where I printed these comics on huge canvases, creating the sensation of being inside a really big, nasty comic book!

I was able to leave a dictatorship behind by virtue of drawing challenging stuff that would literally get me canceled these days, I don’t have any advice for anyone of this day and age, I’d love to tell people to draw whatever comes to their mind but most people are going to have a hard time finding a place to show that, I’m thankful for the few spaces remaining where they let art be unhinged, raw and challenging, without that I would probably be another one of Maduro’s political prisoners today.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Breakfast at Maury’s in Silverlake, get whatever on a zatar bagel.

20$ free play all day at Family Arcade (Tuesdays it’s 15) just saying!

I like to mountain bike a lot, Verdugo Mountain is pretty awesome, go to La Tuna trailhead and bike up until you reach the first antenna, takes me about 50 mins usually, nothing beats that view!

There’s a taco stand in the intersection of Tamarind and Santa Monica, eat there anywhere after 5 pm.

Hyaena Gallery in Burbank, go there for the books, stay for the art!

Night hike at Griffith Park through the Commonwealth Ave entrance, and visit the original set for the E.T, forest!

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
Robert Williams, Barry Jackson, Ralph Bakshi, Quino, Crumb, and shoutout to Adam West for being funny and awesome when I showed him my first comic book back at the Raleigh Studious lot!

Website: Oripoto.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/Oripotox

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-etcheverry-4157b161/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJW-QN8Wan49BCoNgxiq6eg

Other: https://www.mixcloud.com/CHIRRITECHNOLOGY/

Image Credits
All images are mine, they belong to me.

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