Los Monitos de Ramos

Some of you may read that I was signed up to attend the COMICPALOOZA show in Houston TX. this weekend, well I was.

Unfortunately the events of the last week in Mexico made me take the decision to cancel my trip to the US, the reasons you can read them or watch them on the news, the Swine Flu is a virus that is hitting us hard to all of us here, our government decide to take strong resolutions in an effort to contain as much as possible the spread of this terrible epidemic, nobody is ignorant of the reach of this virus, and of course most people in Mexico is concern and alert on what to do to prevent been contaminated with the Flu.

This is where my decision comes from, I will explain. Fortunately Me and my family and and friends we are all alright, but this is a more important reason to remain alert and precocious, avoiding places where is a big concentration of people is one the main warnings  we got from day one of the outbreak, so being in a plane or the airport is not the best place to be right now. Family is of course another important issue, as I wrote already my people they are all healthy, but we are all worry and why not even a little scared, so I think is not the best time to go far from them, in Mexico family always come first, and hey I am an average Mexican in that matter, so been away from home these days just would make me feel more worried about the people left behind. Another important reason, is with the people who are expecting to share some fun time with me at the show, the main reason why I attend to Conventions is because is the ONE opportunity I have to talk, laugh, take pictures and shake hands with the fans who like my work enough to go to a convention center and spend their day with me, I don’t want to create any concerns about my personal health and make people wonder and think if I maybe be infected and create an unpleasant environment, again  thank God I’m in good shape and I’m willing to remain this way.

So I want to say I’m sorry for missing the show this year, but I hope you all understand that extraordinary circumstances claim for extraordinary decisions.

The only reason why I cancel an appearance is when  there is a strong reason to do so, I believe  this Swine flu,  is a strong enough reason.

To the people of Houston, I will make it up to you next time.

Have fun and enjoy the weekend.

I’ll see you next time.

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