ART TO THE FACE #27 – March 2026: Lucha, Lines, and Losing Your Mind (Productively)

Issue 27 of ART TO THE FACE is what happens when you stop waiting for permission and just start making stuff like your life depends on it—because honestly, it kind of does.

This one hits like a colorful punch to the skull right out the gate, with a wild lucha cover that feels like it’s screaming directly at you to get back to work. Inside, it’s a full-on creative scattershot: paintings that feel half-dream, half-breakdown, sketchbook pages that look like they were ripped out mid-thought, and comics that are equal parts funny, ugly, and honest in the best way.

There’s a real sense of momentum here—like the pages can’t sit still. You can feel the grind behind it. The “painting like mad” energy is real, pushing toward shows, chasing something bigger, even while questioning the scene itself . It’s messy, it’s searching, and it’s alive.

You also get glimpses of everything that feeds the machine: late-night sketchbook ramblings, weird photography experiments, observations about life, people, and yeah—even a quick jab at society when it deserves it (which is often). It’s not polished, and that’s exactly the point.

And then there’s FUGLY, creeping in like a gremlin with a plan—48 episodes deep and gearing up to hit the world soon. You can feel something building there.

This issue isn’t trying to impress you. It’s trying to move. To experiment. To figure it out in real time.

ART TO THE FACE #27 is process over perfection, chaos over comfort, and proof that the only way forward… is to keep making.