My Webcomic: Mito
Part 2
Duendes are real
The scariest stories my grandmother told us were about the duende.
A duende is something like a goblin. Almost every culture has a version of it. What fascinates me is how similar they are wherever they appear. Smaller than a human. Clever. Mischievous. Always waiting for an opportunity. They trick their victims.
I’m from Guatemala, a country with more than twenty recognized languages. Spanish is the dominant one. But languages, like stories, travel. They mix. They change.
The duende came to the Americas with the Spanish. Along with guns, germs, and steel, they brought their language and spirits.
My webcomic, Mito, is about this.
In Spanish, mito means myth.
Mito is a story told in fragments. Inspired by the scary stories I’d hear from my grandmother at night. As an adult, I’ve built on them, but I tried to capture the feeling of being a child who believed every word.
