Currently, there is no high-profile professional comic book artist or major work widely recognized under the specific name "Rolando Merida" [1.2.1-1.5.8].
Merida produced a limited run of 50 comics wrapped in actual cow-print contact paper. In issue #5 of his zine Sangre Dura , he drew a scene where a character licked a cow print wallpaper. Local conservative groups (the Frente por la Familia ) mistook the zoological print for a political statement about bestiality. Protests erupted outside a small gallery in Zone 4 of Guatemala City. Merida responded by releasing a second print run with more cow print, turning the comic into a symbol of absurdist resistance. Rolando Merida Comic Gayl