{"id":1450,"date":"2019-04-19T19:55:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T19:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:21:28","slug":"punk-taco-a-unique-collaboration-between-a-father-and-his-young-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/punk-taco-a-unique-collaboration-between-a-father-and-his-young-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Punk Taco: A Unique Collaboration Between a Father and His Young Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSKMtrWUF50\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe>\n\nOne day, about a year ago, professional artist, Adam Wallenta was hanging out with his five year-old son Makana doing the things that dads and sons do together like playing with action figures and Legos, being silly and generally having fun. As other creatives will no doubt relate, Adam had a wacky idea for a comic bouncing around in his head and he mentioned it out loud to Makana, <em>Punk Taco<\/em>. Makana thought it was awesome and started to come up with all kinds of ideas for the characters and plot. The next thing Adam knew, they were sketching, designing the look and feel of the characters and developing a whole story line together.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1459\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/sample-pages-punk-taco-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"sample page from Punk Taco\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/sample-pages-punk-taco-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/sample-pages-punk-taco-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/sample-pages-punk-taco-480x853.jpg 480w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/sample-pages-punk-taco.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/>\n\nAlthough Adam had been in the middle of completing another graphic novel at the time, he knew he had to put it on hold to focus on <em>Punk Taco<\/em> because he wanted to capture that special moment in time with his son. \"Children grow up fast, and I wanted to be able to share the experience of creating something fun that would last a lifetime.\"\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1460\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/sample-pages-punk-taco-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sample Page 2 Punk Taco\" width=\"388\" height=\"600\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/sample-pages-punk-taco-2.jpg 388w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/sample-pages-punk-taco-2-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/>\n\nSince then, Adam and Makana have traveled all over the country promoting <em>Punk Taco: Volume 1,<\/em> and are in the process of finishing up Volume 2, which was designed on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wacom.com\/en-us\/products\/pen-displays\/wacom-cintiq-pro-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wacom Cintiq Pro 16<\/a>.\n<h2>Learn more about Punk Taco<\/h2>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.punktaco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.punktaco.com\/product\/punk-taco-vol-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy <em>Punk Taco volume 1<\/em><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/punk-taco-an-all-ages-comic-book-by-a-dad-son#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Punk Taco volume 2<\/em> on Indiegogo<\/a>\n<h2>About Adam and Makana<\/h2>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1461\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/adam-and-makana-269x300.png\" alt=\"Makana and Adam Wallenta\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/adam-and-makana-269x300.png 269w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/adam-and-makana.png 607w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/04\/adam-and-makana-480x536.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/>\n\nAdam Wallenta is a publisher, writer, illustrator, editor, teacher, emcee and father. He founded Adam Wallenta Entertainment to help bring new independent creator owned projects to life. Adam has illustrated over fifty children\u2019s books, numerous comics, graphic novels and illustrated album art for Rock n Roll Hall of Fame musicians such as Public Enemy &amp; Lloyd Price among many others.\n\nMakana Wallenta is just your typical 6-year-old that loves to write stories and draw pictures with his dad. When he\u2019s not coming up with ideas for new silly comic book characters or playing Lego or superheroes, he\u2019s practicing piano or reading a good book.\n\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Wallenta and his six year-old son, Makana create an all-ages comic book on a Wacom Cintiq Pro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2323,2332,2318,2317],"tags":[219,220,221,185],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-of-creativity","category-cintiq-and-cintiq-pro","category-creative-inspiration","category-digital-drawing-painting","tag-collaboration","tag-comic","tag-father-and-son","tag-wacom-cintiq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}