The apocalypse is Now

Bá's rendition of this famous scene in Apocalypse Now for a movie poster exposition. Seems appropriate to post it today.

CASANOVA in France

Here's the brand new cover I did for the French edition of CASANOVA - Luxuria.




Casanova is gonna be published in France by Urban Comics, to be release in January, 2013.

I'm prepared to sign a lot of Casanovas in Angoulême and on the other cities of our little French tour, as well of Daytripper (and every other book someone might bring) and do a lot of "dédicaces".

BPRD: Vampire cover 2

This link, where we first talk about the new mini-series, already had this image, which is the cover of issue 2, so I guess it's ok to show it here as well even if it's not in solicitations yet.

Sélection Officielle - Angouleme 2013

Daytripper just made it into the official selection of the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême 2013.

The festival will take place from January 31st until February 3rd, 2013, and we will be there! When the time comes and we know more about it, we'll put our whole schedule over here.
Thanks everyone for this never ending amazing ride.

Merci beaucoup.
Nous sommes très heureux. 
Nous voyions en Angoulême.

Utopiales - Prix de la meilleure BD

Daytripper has just won the Award for best "album de bande dessinée" at Les Utopiales, in Nantes, France


Merci a tout le monde.
Nous sommes très heureux.

CARANDIRU poster

CARANDIRU poster, a photo by 10paezinhos on Flickr.

My version of a poster for Carandiru, a brazilian movie about real events, set in a prison. Part of an exhibition with new versions for classic or iconic movie posters.

Quai des Bulles - merci pour tout.

I just returned from this beautiful festival in France called Quai des Bulles, that happens every year in Saint Malo in the region of Bretagne and is the second biggest comics festival in France, after only Angoulême. It was nothing short of incredible.

Daytripper was nominated for an award called Prix Ouest France, which we didn't win, but with the trip, I won much more than I could possibly imagine.
Saint Malo is a beautiful city and I had a great time, met wonderful people, artists, fans and the people from the festival. Every day there was new discoveries, and every night, new mysteries. I met my friend Frederik Peeters by chance there (the fact that I was invited one week from the festival made the entire experience a surprise for me, since I had no time to make plans), and met many artists from Nantes, many friends of my friend Cyril Pedrosa, who was in a festival in Portugal that weekend. Also, meeting Bastien Vivès was nice. I also bumped a couple of times with Sean Phillips there, he was one of the guests of honor, with a beautiful exhibition of originals.
  
 
 
  
I couldn't recommend this festival hard enough for anyone interested in seeing what French comics have to offer, and how incredible creative the stories, the books, the artists and the festival environment all are. Thanks to François, Florian, Anneclaire, Emmanuel, Gérald, Clémentine and everybody else who made this such an unforgettable trip for me.

BPRD: VAMPIRE

Some years ago, we had the gigantic honor of being invited to work with Mike Mignola on the series BPRD 1947 (along with Josh Dysart). We have been huge fans of his work for more than two decades and he's a massive influence.

After we finished that series, Mike and Scott (our editor) wanted to make more comics with us, but we didn't really know what at the time. A couple of years later, we finally finished Daytripper and we started talking about what this next thing could be.

What it turned out is this:
BPRD :VAMPIRE



On 1947, we were only the artists on that series. This time, we talking closely with Mike and Scott and we are also writing the story.

We are really thrilled to be working on the Heelboy universe once more and I can only hope the readers like what we will show them.

It will be a 5 issue mini-series and it'll begin in March. You can read a little bit more about it here, and see some pages as well.

MONSTERS!

Who's going to NYCC?
Wanna know the release party to attend during the convention weekend? Bergen street Comics has the answer for you.
Don't miss this opportunity to get Gustavo Duarte's new book.

Complete Serenity short for sale.

This year, I did a neat SERENITY short story with Zack Whedon for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. It was published by Dark Horse and now the original artwork is available for sale at the Beguiling online store. Differently than what we've done with the Beguiling in other occasions, this time we're only selling this as a set, so whoever feels like having an entire short story by me, this is your chance.

To see all 10 pages at a larger size, click here.

Earlier last week, there was a little mix up about the prices of these pages, and both the Beguiling people and I apologize for it. 

mysterious

Looking up

Está chovendo?, a photo by 10paezinhos on Flickr.

Up and ahead.
Always.
After our dreams.

Meow

Miau., a photo by 10paezinhos on Flickr.

it's nice to draw cute every once in a while.

Almost ready

As I was working on this piece, it reminded me of Jock and Brian Wood, whose works constantly contain soldiers, police, weapons and lots of black areas in it.

Gotta read more.

Girl with glasses

Pussycat ears

16 candles, a SDCC story

Once more, we traveled hours and miles away from Brazil to land on the sunny – and windy – San Diego, for yet another Comic Con International, our 16th consecutive year. A lot has changed since our first convention in 1997, but the energy around comics is still just as vibrating as it used to be.

There are many people we've met during these 16 years, some of which became friends and that we cherish our yearly encounter, if only for a very short time on the Hyatt bar or crossing by one another on the convention floor. Some friends have a closer relationship, such as Jill Thompson, who we met back in 97 and was kind enough to make an alternative cover for our comic "Roland" Days of Wrath" back in 99, and today shares the booth with us (she actually invited us to share her booth, to which we are very grateful). Another good friend is Becky Cloonan, the amazing self-publishing queen of comics, conquering every corner of the industry with her charm, smile and amazing talent, who we've met in 2004 and since then have never left our side, and with whom we did some amazing comics like PIXU and our beloved and Eisner winning comic, "5".

A lot has changed in 16 years, for us and for the convention itself. We have been setting up a space for us to stay and get in touch with the public for a long time now, be it a big booth with a Charlemagne statue made of paper-machet (in 1999), or a table at small-press area, one at the Image big island among other creators or the booth we're at right now with friends. And that's because we know this is the opportunity to make the connection between the author and the reader, just like it happened to us all those years ago. Today we have lots of books published, a career that has reached out and now bounces back with all the people who come to our booth to tell us how they liked this or that book, to get one that they didn't have yet, to discover new and old works of ours, to ask for a simple sketch that takes me less than a brief thought, but it's a priceless treasure for them. And the amazing cosplayeres. This is worth all the struggles we go through to be there every year.

   

I don't really mind all the Hollywood invasion and all the entertainment circus that the convention has become. I find it very fascinating and for the attendees it's an unparalleled spectacle, but it made it more difficult to be part of this whole experience for someone who's not so fanatic and desperate. The tickets sell out in the blink of an eye, the hotels are more expensive every year that goes by and more difficult to get a room. If 16 years ago one could stumble on the convention unaware of it's existence and, out of curiosity, buy a ticket and get in, that's just not possible today. To have a space like ours is a luxury that, if lost, would put us on a seven year waiting list. It's still a gigantic show with lots of exposure and every year new people come and discover us, but it's becoming harder and harder to breath inside the crowded aisles of the convention floor and draw the attention of people who are checking their twitter and facebook feeds on iPhones, or looking up to see Iron Man or the big cave Troll around the corner.

Even the big studios and companies had to leave the building in order to have the room to stand out, taking over restaurants and other venues on the Gaslamp District, flooding the city even more with the craziness of the Comic Con. Luckily for us, one of these exterior enterprises was TR!CKSTER.

For the second year on a row, TR!CKSTER is the space to value art and the creators, not the companies, the franchises, the blockbusters of the summer. It had this amazing vibe and offered incredible symposia with some of the best professionals of the field. A little out of the way from the convention centre, it was a kind of a sanctuary, a safe place for those who just wanted find new amazing books, or to hang out with their idols and friends, talk about comics, art and why it's so amazing.

I'm sure San Diego is still the biggest window for displaying your work on the North American comics market, for showing your face, but what it is really showing are the signs of fatigue on the faces of some of our friend creators, and on our own as well. It can't be just a matter of being there, but remaining meaningful to go. We hear a lot about other conventions across the U.S. that are supposed to be great, like C2E2, HeroesCon, Stumptown and NYCC, to which we've attended once in 2010. The smaller, more alternative ones as well, like Mocca, APE, SPX. We've been to TCAF in May and we loved it out there, such a great creative energy. 

The main thing is to keep working on new comics, new stories to fuel the imagination of the readers, to remind them that we are here, far away in São Paulo, but our tales will cross the ocean and find them, be it in San Diego, Toronto, Naples, London, Luanda, La Paz, Rosário, Beja. And we couldn't have done this if we hadn't been attending the San Diego Comic Con International for all these years. It helped to build what we are today, and we hope we have helped building the history of the convention as well.

Watercolor video

Five steps of one of my latest watercolors in a video I made for a brazilian site.
Enjoy.

SDCC 2012

Our books

This year, more than any other year, we'll have our books at our booth inside SDCC. If you like one of our stories and want to try out another one, we'll be there to supply whatever you want. Some are rare to find, others, like the third CASANOVA album, AVARITIA, will debut at the conven.tion.
We'll be at the booth selling and signing the books, and every book we sell will get a sketch inside.

Our schedule

These are our plans inside the convention center, and around San Diego:
thursday, July 12th
2PM- I'll be at TR!CKSTER for the art demo, where I'll draw and ink on the spot, and answer questions about style and storytelling.
8PM- Bá and I will go to the CBLDF welcome party at the Westgate hotel. Stop by to see all the amazing original art they're auctioning this year, and grab a drink while you're at it.
saturday, July 14th
4PM- Bá and I will be signing at the Dark Horse booth (#2615)
sunday, July 15th
12:15-1:45 CBLDF Rock Art Jam- Bá and I, along with Nate Powell, will draw on site rock related images while we talk about the love and influence of music in our work. The audience we'll be able to bid on the drawings to take them home after the panel, the profits will all go to the CBLDF. Room 5AB


Other than that, we'll probaly be at our booth (#1320) most of the time. Come along, stop by and let's have fun at another crazy Comic Con.

And then, something extra

Aside from all the original pages we'll have at our booth, from Umbrella Academy, Casanova, Serenity and BPRD 2012, I'll be bringing these little paintings I've been doing recently. They're small and delicate, and cheaper than the pages, so a wonderful opportunity for those who want a piece of original art from us but can't afford a page.

CASANOVA originals at SDCC 2012

It's sexy. It's crazy. What else can I say for sure about CASANOVA?
It was a very hard year working on this series and juggling it with all the other projects both Matt and I had to do, so I'm really sorry to have delayed issues #3 and #4 so much. But, in the end, it was for the best, because I was more focused and could produce what I think were some of the best pages of my life.
AVARITIA was a crazy story arc that explained a lot of things and left a whole other bunch on the air, but that's the way it is with this book. And what comes next? We'll have to wait and see. Only Matt knows.
So if you're a fan of Casanova Quinn, Sasa Lisi, Suki Boutique and Luther Desmond Diamond, you'll be thrilled to know that we're bringing original pages of AVARITIA to sell next week on SDCC at our booth (#1320). Here's the amazing selection of pages (click on the pages to see a bigger version).
 









Oh, how I loved that Ziggy Startdust reference. It came out perfect. I really love when Matt points at something and I nail it. It's a very hard thing to do. the man is not from this world.

The folks of Beguiling have some other pages as well, from previous stories. So don't forget to check them out. They sell it online and I'm sure they'll bring of of them to the show as well.
AAAAAANNNNND… we will have all three trades of the Casanova series for sale at our booth.
LUXURIA, GULA and AVARITIA. Very exciting! PA-ZOW!