THE REST
Growing a Private Garden
After one year of running MundoMendo, I have learned that creating your own channel is essential for creatives.
August 19, 2025Drawings and Stories, Rescued from the Bottom Drawer.
Comics by Luis Mendo — For Members Only
KARUIZAWA VISITORS
A Man Who Walks & Writes
Where Craig Mod visits Karuizawa and we dine talking about hemorrhoids, kidney stones and maintaining an audience happy.
August 12, 2025
MAGIC KONBINI
Magic, Day & Night
Because we all can use some magic, now there's a convenience store where all kinds of sorcery is sold: a hairspray to improve your intellect, a pink pill for instant career success, a pair of socks to cure all illnesses… Please welcome the Magic Konbini to your life.
July 26, 2025
ARTIST'S LIFE
Important Things aren't Things
Where I explain why I am richer than Musk, you can see me stumble miserably down a dusty hill and you get a good peek into how I feel about being a father.
July 07, 2025
ART
Flying Lessons
Where a friend goes to Morocco on a meditation retreat, Nicolas Cage goes to Vietnam to become of age, and a bunch of swallows teach me how to draw.
June 15, 2025
SHORT STORIES
My Muse Left Me
In which I cry in public, others pick up the pieces. Traces of a broken heart and some solutions for the world.
June 12, 2025
ARTIST'S LIFE
Life Permeates Work
Where I ponder about what determines one’s style, I realize having friends with taste is more important than having money and that objects, after all, may be able to make you happy.
June 02, 2025
THE REST
Start Book One
Where I announce an upcoming book, explain the real goals of this website and ponder about the state of the publishing industry today.
May 21, 2025
ARTIST'S LIFE
Making a Little Birdhouse in my Soul
Since friends keep asking how the move to the mountains outside of Tokyo is going, I think it's time for an early reflection.
May 10, 2025
ARTIST'S LIFE
Moved
If you ever planned to move houses, do a simple A to B and don't add more houses into the mix. A brief update of how my little family and me made the jump outside of Tokyo. And how is it going.
April 28, 2025
ARTIST'S LIFE
Ode to my Tokyo Studio
After our move outside of Tokyo, I had to give up my studio. As a way to honor it and my time there, I wanted to have a good record of the space.
April 15, 2025
MRMENDO
The Day I Went Searching for Bread and an Idea but Bumped into a Zakkyo
Things happen when you go out in Tokyo to buy bread, hoping to get ideas for a comic: serendipity, birds and bread have interesting ways of intertwining.
April 13, 2025