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Abstract Latinx comics creators publish on social media to connect with a global audience and perform digital self-mediation that enhances the self-reflexive themes in their work. Among these creators is Chicana artist, Daisy Ruiz, known as Draizys, whose auto-bio comic Gordita: Built Like This showcases this approach. Its narrative contents, publication trajectory, and digital promotion exemplify how Ruiz as protagonist and author uses digital tools to produce and share her creative work. Her depictions of adolescent internet use, along with the behind-the-scenes content she posts to Instagram and TikTok, underscore how she uses medium-specific affordances to produce sequential autobiographical narratives in her comics and social media posts that, in both content and form, nuance how Latinas are mediated to the public.

Yesterday was hotter and more humid than the weather in their native Mexico, said Daisy Vidales and Eric Bautista, who sat in the shade, cooling themselves with paper fans and nibbling roasted corn. But Vidales and Bautista had more on their minds than the heat. Volunteers from Mayor Martin O'Malley's gubernatorial campaign and staffers from his Hispanic Liaison Office also worked the festival yesterday. At the liaison's booth, festivalgoers picked up Spanish guides to city services and black T-shirts and buttons bearing the word Creer, which means \"Believe\" in Spanish. Lorena Beltran, a six-year employee of the office, said that she has seen Baltimore's Latino population change over the years. Men who used to arrive in the U.S. alone to work for a short time and send money home now are accompanied by wives, children and elderly parents. Although the heart of the community still lies in the Fells Point area, Latinos are moving across the city to more suburban areas like Falstaff and Hamilton, Beltran said.

Nillely Velazquez of Dundalk sipped a long-necked strawberry daiquiri and watched her mother and niece dance at yesterday's 26th annual Latino Fest in Patterson Park, taking place at a time when the city's Hispanic population is booming and growing more politically aware. Volunteers from Mayor Martin O'Malley's gubernatorial campaign and staffers from his Hispanic Liaison Office also worked the festival yesterday. At the liaison's booth, festivalgoers picked up Spanish guides to city services and black T-shirts and buttons bearing the word Creer, which means \"Believe\" in Spanish. Photo(s); 1. Nino Graham shows his Puerto Rican pride by using a towel bearing the island's flag to shield him from the heat at the Latino Fest. 2. A cook marinades skewers of food on a grill at the Latino Fest, which featured dancing, music and a variety of foods. 3. Lisa Rojas and Rico Arus enjoy the Latino Fest with a little dance at Patterson Park. Proceeds from the festival will support Education Based Latino Outreach.; Credit: PHOTOS BY KARL MERTON FERRON : SUN PHOTOGRAPHER

At Panaderia Ramos, her bakery in the cultural and commercial hub of the Hispanic community in Southeast Baltimore, Ramos knows she must stock a wide assortment of traditional Latino pastries to meet the demands of local customers with roots all over the Spanish- speaking world. Along Eastern Avenue, from Broadway in Fells Point to Conkling Street in Highlandtown, Hispanic immigrants are transforming neighborhoods that were longtime enclaves for working-class whites, many with Eastern European roots. The transformation can be seen in restaurants and shops such as Panaderia Ramos in Fells Point. PHOTO(S) / GRAPH(S); 1. At Panaderia Ramos in Southeast Baltimore, Lupe Ramos, 7, daughter of the owner, watches as Julie Santos shops. 2. [Daisy Ramos], owner of Panaderia Ramos, is in front of her bakery with her daughter, Lupe, and baker Faustino Moreno. She offers a wide assortment of Latino pastries to serve her customers. 3. These are some of the selections at Panaderia Ramos. \"Everyone wants to be able to find their own style of bread,\" says the owner. 4. Hispanic growth in Baltimore region; Credit: 1. - 3. BARBARA HADDOCK TAYLOR : SUN STAFF PHOTOS 4. SUN STAFF