Apart from two of the main characters and their dad being Puerto Rican like me, if I was asked this a while ago I would've said no. But recently I had a realization about a central aspect of my series that I never realized was associated with Latin American culture but in hindsight, it makes sense!
A big component of my series is family, and not found family like in other shonen. Scamp and the dynamic he has with sister and dad is a key part of the story, along with Sarah and her family. The following is spoilers for chapter 4 whenever that comes out but in that chapter, Scamp's family end up moving into the house where Sarah lives so you got this big family living together even though both of their dad's aren't related by blood. This is something that's incredibly familiar to me because when I was a kid, we would have these huge family get togethers where nearly everyone came! Uncles and Aunts, Cousins, Grandparents, Godparents, you name it and not just for holidays like Christmas. We would have huge get togethers whenever we would to places like Six Flags or even Day Out With Thomas events! Literally in my living room is a picture of me, my parents and brothers, my uncle and aunt, my cousins, my grandparents and even my Godparents taken in front of the Thomas they had at the railroad. And while this aspect did go away as I got older, for brief periods my cousin (who was waaaaaaaaay older than me) and his wife and kids would occasionally live at our place before he had to relocate for jobs. The point is, family has been a huge component of my personal life and as it turns out though, this aspect is heavily associated with Latin American culture, Puerto Rico included of course. And it wasn't until recently that I realized I put all of that in my comic without me knowing it consciously. It was so normal to me that I never realized that it was uniquely Hispanic, and the fact I subconsciously included that aspect of my culture in my series without being entirely conscious about it is really cool!
