“Below Sycamore,” a new comic book series from playwright Daniel Medina, who grew up in Gardena, also features Danny Trejo as a prophet.
After a six-week run in San Francisco’s Shelton Theater theater in 2019, Gardena-born playwright Daniel Medina took his play about two friends navigating through the tough world of drugs, addiction and crime from the stage to the pages of aMedina’s doing it with the help of a famous actor who knows a little something about that world with the goal of helping people caught in the cycle of addiction, especially those behind bars.
“I hope that it would give them just a little bit of hope. Because when you’re incarcerated that’s what you have the least of, is hope,” said Medina, the creator of “Below Sycamore,” a new comic series based on his play of the same name and a storyline which includes a character inspired by prolific actor“He’s like a prophet, he’s a homeless prophet,” Median said of Trejo’s character, who appears as a shaman of sorts named Mikey.
JD wants to follow in his father’s criminal footsteps while Chucho, who is dealing with a drug-addicted mother, just wants to make some fast money and impress his friend JD as the two are hounded by drug dealers and corrupt police officers. While there is a lot of dark subject matter in the comic book, ultimately this series is about hope since the characters eventually seek to escape their violent word, Medina said.licensed his name and likeness for the comic series but he is not involved with the writing or any of the creative process in the series, Medina said. Also on the cover is Latin-American rapper Mr. Criminal, whose character is a ruthless crime boss.
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