smoke signals

Warm-up sketch, sending out my usual smoke signals.

Neil Gaiman and girls in 2016

In June 2016, Dark Horse will publish our graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's short story How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The books has just been announced by Publisher's Weekly.



On Neil Gaiman's words, “they have a storytelling aesthetic where [depicting] body language is everything. The story is all about what’s in the narrators’ heads, so it can be very hard to do that in comics. It’s incredibly enjoyable to write a story and see them make it real.”

We've been working on this book since last year and we couldn't be happier with it.

Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties (Hardcover) | 978-1-61655-955-7 | 6/15/2016 | $17.99

Morning warm up

New tricks, or the lettering magic

Here's a recent video I made with Bá for a lecture we did about comic book lettering. After years lettering my comics in the computer thanks to the fabulous work of letterers and font wizards like Richard Starkings (who I had the pleasure of meeting recently in Leeds, his home town, during Thought Bubble), Nate Piekos (whose great fonts and balloons have been helping us tell Umbrella and Sugarshock stories) and many others, I have recently decided to apply myself on the art of hand lettering. I always had crappy handwriting, which distracted the eye from the drawing when put together on my comics, but after meeting Craig Thompson, Dustin Harbin, Cyril Pedrosa and many other artists whose lettering also helps to convey their art styles (which is the case in most of the european artists), I decided to figure out what my stories would look like if I hand lettered them, so I've been practing and experimenting with different tools. A part of me – the part that inks everything with the same brush – wants to letter with the brush and see how would that go, but I guess I would have to draw a little bigger to pull that off. Seems to work with Paul Pope, and I know he draws pretty big.
I'm still not satisfied with my skills, but it's fun to learn with the mistakes you make while you're discovering a new world.

My girl

A detail from a larger image.
Every character looks better when I'm using a new brush.

Yet another art hunt girl

I did another art hunt this week in São Paulo before I did a presentation in a theatre. The last hunt of the year.

Girly sketches

Some of the girly sketches we made during our German tour.

Angoulême 2013 - books and watercolors

It's not every day that we travel to France, so we decided to take some of our more independent publications to sell at Angoulême. Since Atelier, our latest mini-comic, is also in french, it was a perfecy fit.
Look for us any time we're at the Urban Comics stand (most afternoons from 2pm to 6pm) to check it out.


We'll also have a very limited amount of watercolor girls, which are only found personally with us during conventions and festival.

   

(click on the images for bigger versions)

Nous nous voyons lá-bas!

mysterious

Gotta read more.

Girl with glasses

Pussycat ears

At your doorstep

Meet at the door

Sketch on my notebook.
Pencil, ballpen and watercolor.

Mask

Personal drawing.
Ballpen and brushpen on the notebook.

Winter Girl

ffff

A sketchy girl

This was my warm up sketch this morning. I got a little carried away, so it took me the entire morning.
I liked it, though.

Hello, kitty girl

Every girl loves her Hello Kitty bag.

Cute

A little cross-eyed, I guess, but still cute. Cute enough, and fun enough, for a warm up exercize. I wish every warm up doodle would come out like this one.