Bom dia, bom dia and Happy New Year! Hélio "Link" Pene is an illustrator who is loaded with artistic lines that flow from the heart and reflect what is felt rather than observed, he used the mic as his colour palette to draw us a comic strip of his story. In our first episode of 2021, we discuss his path to becoming an illustrator, his first paid job, African pop comic culture, Os Informais and the origins of his name "Link".