Illustrated microfictions and short stories:

Many times I "illustrate" my drawings with a (very) short story. Although I have tagged them on this blog under the label "illustrated texts" it would be more appropriate to call them textured drawings because, unlike typical illustrations, here the text always appears as a consequence of the image and is subordinate to it.

These are the few I have dared to translate in my poor English. You can see the rest in its original Spanish version.

  • Thumb Portrait - Pen and ink illustration

    Thumb Self-portrait

    This clumsy and stilted portrait of a thumb was inspired by this more...

  • Fountain pen and black ink illustration

    Watching

    He would wake up with the rooster crowing. Would gather some twigs and light...

  • Another NeverEnding Story - Pen and ink spots illustration by Lisandro Demarchi

    Another NeverEnding Story

    In a shady southern tavern whose name I do not care to remember, some...

  • Pen and ink artwork for the novel Confessions Of A Tick

    Confessions Of A Tick

    Throughout its more than five hundred pages, the award-winning author...

  • The Chicken's Paw. A Flash Fiction Written and Illustrated by Lisandro Demarchi

    The Chicken's Paw

    One in a hundred chicken feet has the power to grant a wish to anyone who...

  • Incomplete Metamorphosis

    Incomplete Metamorphosis

    It could have become a colorful butterfly or, knowing me, more likely a...

  • Cuttlefly

    Cuttlefly

    Much has been written about animals that managed to adapt from the aquatic...

  • Little Ballpoint Beasts

    Little Ballpoint Beasts

    There is a kind of minor beasts born from the leftovers of the creation, the...

  • Don Valerio - Circus elephant trainer cartoon by Lisandro Demarchi

    Don Valerio

    Don Valerio wake up every day at 5:45 am. He does not do it on the cot in...

  • Pen and washed ink: When those two danced

    When those two danced...

    They had nothing in common but believe me, when those two danced...

  • Doña Eloisa

    Doña Eloisa

    ...and that summer night, Doña Eloisa, who was illiterate from birth, imagined a nub.

Illustrated microfictions and...