{"id":7221,"date":"2020-10-01T23:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T03:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergf.net\/interviews-alsacia-plaz-sugar-salt-cartoonist\/"},"modified":"2020-10-11T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T21:32:41","slug":"interviews-alsacia-plaz-sugar-salt-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergf.net\/en\/interviews-alsacia-plaz-sugar-salt-cartoonist\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Alsacia Plaz, Sugar & Salt cartoonist “Sometimes I can’t draw if I don’t have candies with me”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alsacia Plaz<\/strong>, also known as Saci, is the creator of Sugar and Salt<\/strong>, a famous comic strip that she has illustrated since 2012 with her sister Lorena<\/strong>. The brand is very popular on the Internet, its Facebook page<\/a> has almost a million and a half followers, its Instagram, @azucarysal<\/a><\/strong>, has more than half a million and its twitter<\/a> has about 163 thousand. Thanks to her efforts, Alsacia Plaz is one of the most widespread illustrators in Venezuela<\/strong>. Stay with us to know her better.<\/p>\n\n

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What part of Venezuela do you come from? Do you have good memories from there?<\/h2>\n\n

I was born in Caracas<\/strong>but lived all my life in Puerto Ordaz<\/strong>. Uff, I have beautiful memories of both cities. The family Christmas meetings at my grandmother’s house in Caracas, the trips with the cousins to Colonia Tovar<\/strong> or El Hatillo<\/strong>, El \u00c1vila<\/strong>, the afternoons in the museum of fine arts or in the central with dad who usually visits his faculty every time we go.<\/p>\n\n

And I cannot fail to mentionBolivar<\/strong>, my true home. Guayana is one of the most beautiful cities that I have seen in all my life with its rivers and all the nature that has inspired so many, the trips to the La Llovizna Park and to have breakfast with my parents, the days of cinema in the Orinokia with friends, the ice creams of Bariloche, The Christmas Park, The Eco Museum when they exposed great works of art and science, the days in the Italo, the stage in the UCAB that were the best years of my life<\/strong>… Uff, I could make a long list of all the beautiful memories I have of Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n

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Was it always your occupation to be a cartoonist or did you want to do something else before?<\/h2>\n\n

As long as I can remember, I wanted to draw and scratch the walls with scribbles. Since I was a child, my sister and I were put in charge of making the billboards and all the drawings for the school projects. Sometimes I feel that since I was born I am dedicating myself to the same thing and it is beautiful, nevertheless I had my stages in which I wanted to be a cook because the kitchen is another of my passions although I am not so good at it<\/strong> (laughs).<\/p>\n\n

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Tell us how you started that adventure of drawing, how was that process?<\/h2>\n\n

I don’t remember exactly the moment when I started drawing but I can tell you thatI began to live from this in the year 2012, when by chance I invented Sugar and Salt.<\/strong> It went viral very quickly and big brands like Daniela Kosan<\/strong> started hiring me to illustrate their new line of perfumes or as UNICEF.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Also my followers started asking me for portraits, letters, T-shirts and everything they can imagine with the image of the little doll. Then I saw that in other countries like Colombia and Mexico they were already selling merchandise like shoes, notebooks and T-shirts, so I ran to register the character.<\/strong> In 2014 we launched the first illustrated agenda that was sold in more than 10 countries.<\/p>\n\n

You and Pepper (Lorena Plaz)<\/a> are twins, right? I’ve always been itchy to ask that.<\/h2>\n\n

Yes, we are twins and drawing partners, but I was born 5 minutes earlier<\/strong>(laughs).<\/p>\n\n