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November 5, 2025

The Boy Who Doesn’t Belong 🥷 — A Hood Chronicle

Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi Another day, another puff of this cig — little swirls of smoke gliding between my fingers. Here in South Central I sit, on the curb, seeing. Today’s story is that of a young man, twenty-two years of age, soon to be twenty-three — a young man caught between two worlds.… Continue reading

Hood Chronicles

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November 4, 2025

“The Night I Walked in on Cheeks I Shouldn’t Have Seen.”

It’s strange how the small things — a sound, a scent, a shadow — can turn into memory’s echo. Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi Back when I was working as a houseman at a hotel in Beverly Hills, I saw a lot of wild things. But nothing — and I mean nothing — prepared me for the… Continue reading

Journal

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About Me

I’m Roberto Sanchez — illustrator, writer, and delivery driver in Los Angeles.

By day, I sell plastic bags out of a van across South Central.

By night, I draw, write, and build my life brick by brick.

I graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 2022 with a BFA in Illustration, but art has never been just school to me. It’s survival, reflection, and expression. My illustrations come slow — patience is part of the work.

I live and create out of a converted garage.

That small room became Echoes of the Garage — the place where I put words, drawings, and the pieces of a life I’m rebuilding one step at a time.

Here you’ll find journal entries, Hood Chronicles, and visual experiments that try to capture the absurd, the painful, and the human in everyday life.

This is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

This site is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

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The Boy Who Doesn’t Belong 🥷 — A Hood Chronicle

“The Night I Walked in on Cheeks I Shouldn’t Have Seen.”