Coatl is a comic exploring the artist’s love for wetlands and subtle magic in fiction with the consistent loss and pain of deportation and discrimination in the SE Michigan communities they grew up in; in an attempt to engage both interests in her work, visual aspects of latinx identity, and the difficulties in her life. Set in a rebuilding city at the edge of an ever-encroaching marsh, Maja’s story is an expression of how in a different world they’d react to an ICE officer given the chance, his ousting and eventual death.
This comic was made using both traditional & digital media; all process work is drawn in pen on per as well as pages being initially drawn in micron pen. Each page was scanned in for touch-ups & coloring in ProCreate. A fuller iteration is planned once time and access are available.
Xochi Sánchez is a mixed queer trans femme artist living between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. She works mainly in graphic narrative; zines, comics, etc. and employs queer, trans, latinx, mixed, reconnecting/decolonizing indigenous, and disabled identities within her work. The main goal of her art is to serve and empower the communities she is a part of.
