(...) We happily peek into the transparent images that mirror us. Cristina offers ambiguity. She has a childlike look in her eyes and because of that, it is perverse. Her drawings are light yet heavy with events, and come across clearly though filled with text. They aren’t exactly caricatures or cartoon figures and they are much more than simple illustrations. (...)

João Paulo Cotrim, writer and researcher in comics and illustration who founded the Bedetca de Lisboa


(...) Those who see these illustrations for the first time should get ready to see an exercise in extremely good taste, and those who are going to see them a second time will be surprised by their freshness and how hard it would be to find in the Portuguese press today others with such a consistently good track record. (...)

João Cândido da Silva, journalist


(...) In an area in which more is created but with fewer resources, and in a form of communication in which less is best, these images provide us with a healthy moment to pause and delight in the aesthetics of their form as well as to increase our knowledge, reducing the distance between written and audiovisual information. (...)

Henrique Cayatte, designer


(...) to restate how much I enjoy her work and that I consider her to be one of the leading cartoonists in Portugal today.

António, cartoonist and caricaturist

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