Mercedes Campos Lopez

Is this a pigeon meme, guy is gesturing to a butterfly captioned "never ending parade of tasks" and is saying "is this a life?"

Ah you got a Substack! How did I miss this? Going to follow now 🫡

The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It? When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.

Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.

Floor plan for the Small Press Expo showing the locations of all the exhibitors whose comics are distributed through Radiator comics...please don't be mad if we missed someone!

Less than 2 weeks until @smallpressexpo.bsky.social! We're excited to see nearly 50 cartoonists and small presses whose comics we distribute! Here's a map instructing you how to enjoy SPX if you want to pretend you're walking through the Radiator Comics website...that's a thing, right?

Thanks for letting me know! It completely slipped my mind.

Thank you! Very kind ❤️

I have a comic on crucial comix! Check it out!

My mom and I will watch this anytime and anywhere… I love falling asleep to it.

I have a comic out today in Paper Airplane mag! It’s four pages and it has all the things I love: hiking, my family, my dog, and the blue ridge mountains! Available exclusively at PaperAirplane.pub by making a donation to support refugees and immigrants. Share it with anyone who likes to smile!

I wrote this a few years ago but I still feel this all the time haha. Do you have a favorite pen you HAVE to work with?

Some musings on birthdays in the last hour of my 29th birthday- how do you feel about birthdays?

I've been wanting to get back into watercolor recently but in the meantime here's an old piece I'm still love.

Anyone else terrified of roller coasters... just me? Cool, cool.

I mean that’s true, but I think it’s just a different kind of thing. I like the format of being able to write longer things and add pictures without having to scroll through a thread.

I think you should definitely make a newsletter! It doesn't have to be on substack if you're worried about the platforms issues (which I can say you definitely find some very MAGA orientated stuff and reading comments on some bigger posts are like oof)

I caved to the peer pressure lol

Huh, I couldn't get it to work for me. Weird lol and thanks!

Also just realized the animation did not work lol

Yeah 😊 hope you are doing well too!

Ok reposting the animation since it doesn't appear to be working when I first posted it haha link to newsletter mercedescamposlopez.substack.com/p/hello-there

I made a little animation for my newsletter which you can read here:
open.substack.com/pub/mercedes...
It was fun although it took an ungodly amount of time ( Ben's claymation anyone?)

How things are going these days.

illustration inspired by nyc's chinatown fishmarket done for The Monkey King in Chinatown exhibition 🐵🐟

I made this lil 'zine' about a bizarre dream I had that I think was caused by watching grey's anatomy before bed plus I think I was reading Dune at the time?? Have you ever had such a weird dream that you woke up genuinely disturbed by your own mind? Bonus points if you can guess the GA episode.

Looks great! I love drawing grandma- so much character in their faces and hands.