
The dual identity of the closeted life, the customization of our image and presentation, the sense of otherness and finding a chosen family among peers and even the intentionally coded narrative of mutants as a metaphor for marginalized groups. There are a few points of resonance between queer identity and superhero narratives. And either through stubbornness or precognition, it came to happen.

With the commitment of a young Bruce Wayne’s oath to fight for justice, I swore on a pile of Spanish translation editions that drawing the comics I loved would be my job when I grew up. To draw! To imagine heroes and give them life. Even as a child I could recognize my own superpower. To me, Superman and his kind really existed. The gaps of geopolitical contrast and cultural difference between North and South America were closed with a powerful single bound.

In my case, that lightning hit me as a young kid in Zárate, my own Smallville in Argentina, a corner of the Global South very, very far from where the heroes I was reading about were born. Luciano Vecchio Courtesy of Luciano Vecchio
