KILLJOYS 2

One of my most challenging occupations these days is making up variant covers for "The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys", crazy new series written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, with amazing art by Becky Cloonan, due to come out in June, after a quick appearance on FCBD in the coming weeks.
There're lots of characters, crazy places and lot's of stuff going on. It's been a pleasure being part of this adventure, being able to see where the story is going and help marking the way.

So here's my cover for the second issue, that should be out in July.

VAMPIRE 5

As we're currently finishing the art of the last issue of our series, the last cover is unveiled.


And here's the solicitaion for this issue.

BPRD: VAMPIRE #5
Mike Mignola (W), Fábio Moon (W/A/Cover), Gabriel Bá (W/A), and Dave Stewart (C)

On sale July 31


After the bloody encounter in the woods, only Professor Bruttenholm himself can put an end to this vampire hunt and get to the bottom of the mystery of the undead of Český Krumlov.

Picasso

Late last night, after finishing a double spread page and while waiting the ink dry before I could scan it, I opened my sketchbook and made this Picasso sketch for a friend's blog. It's been 40 years since Picasso died and his work was/is hugely influential not only in the fine arts, but also in drawing and cartooning in general.

Casanova v.4 is coming with a bonus

Casanova has a great deal of history with April. I always remember 2009 with fondness. But now the time has come to yet again share the wonders of the Casanova universe with our universe.

Matt says it best:

"When CASANOVA returns at the end of the year, the main story by Moon and me will be backed up by shorts created by Michael Chabon and Bá.
He keeps saying “Like TALES OF ASGARD” and I’m not sure if he’s kidding or not.
CASANOVA IV
Fraction • Moon • Chabon • Bá • Peter • And, siiiigh, Dharbin.
Marvel/Icon 2013."

Covering the first Killjoy

Continuing in our blog's recent trend of posting our covers, here's Bá's variant cover for the first issue of The True Lives of th Fabulous Killjoys, the new book by our pals Gerard Way, Shaun Simon and the lovely and talented Becky Cloonan.

BPRD - VAMPIRE cover 4

Here's what the solicitation of this issue says:
"Plagued with two vampires trapped inside his chest, Simon Anders struggles to keep them under control before they can throw him into a bloodbath with an army of witches."
We're finishing this issue this week as we also finish the script for issue 5. It has been an incredible ride and I can't wait to see what people think of it in two weeks when the first issue comes out.
Back to the drawing board.

VAMPIRE, VAMPIRE, VAMPIRE!

We're finishing issue 4 of VAMPIRE this week, but here's the cover and solicitation information for issue 3, out in May. (Issue #1 will be on sale in two weeks!)




B.P.R.D.: VAMPIRE #3 (of 5)
Mike Mignola (W), Fábio Moon (W/A/Cover), Gabriel Bá (W/A/Cover), and Dave Stewart (C)
On sale May 29
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Miniseries
A nobleman vampire’s life is spared after a horrific bargain made with the evil goddess Hecate, and now the bloodthirsty Simon Anders will put that deadly deal to rest.
• A direct sequel to the critically acclaimed B.P.R.D.: 1948!
• From the Eisner Award-winning creators of Daytripper—Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon!

Tour de France 2013 - the video

The final chapter of our great adventure in France, now with images, sounds and a lot of traveling around.



Thanks to everyone who came to our signings. Thanks for the stores who opened their doors to us: La Bulle, Expérience, La Parenthèse, Bulles en Tête and Apo(k)Lyps.
And thanks for Urban Comics for everything they did for us. It was amazing.

Angoulême - part 2, or the French tour

There were two halfs of our trip to France. Going to the Festival at Angoulême was just the first one, and the second half was definetely the most different.

Using our lovely Parisian apartment as our home base, the Urban Comics crew sent us in a small signing tour around France: four cities in total, including Paris. Every day, we would wake up early, take a TGV train and cross the country to visit another city, give interviews to the local press and sign at a local bookstore, where we were always met with a mix of readers who had already read Daytripper and those who were discovering the book for the first time but, either out of a recommendation from the bookstore owner or out of their habit of going to signings.

It's incredible how every city in France appears to have a great bookstore specialized in Bande Dessinée and comics. We visited Bulle at Le Mans, which I think was the oldest one in our tour and was located in the oldest part of town, a beautiful medieval village near the remains of the wall built during Roman times. In Lyon, we visited Experience, a great bookstore with a ceiling filled with drawings from their visiting artists, a most distinguished collection from all around the world. We saw Craig Thompson's drawing, and Bannister's (he's from Lyon), Cyril Pedrosa's and so many more. Moebius also left his markings on that cave of wonders, and so did we.

Nancy, the smallest city in our tour, had the biggest bookstore, La Parenthèse, with a lot of space for the readers to discover all kinds of comics, old and new. One room, where we did our drawings and met the public, was filled with great automates, those wonderful handmade dolls which, when you press a button, move by themselves in the most ingenious ways.

In Paris, we visited two bookstores: Bulles en Tète, the newest in our trip, and Apo(K)lyps. Luckly, their were close to each other and we walked the distance from one another, but still that was our longest signing day, signing for three hours on the first and for almost the same time on the second.

We finished the last night of our tour with dinner with Pôl and François from Urban Comics at a great restaurant, eating well, drinking champagne, wine and talking about comics, past, present and future.

We don't know when, but this wasn't our last trip to France. This was the beginning of our french road. And our work has put us on this road and, if we continue to do good work, it's the work which will keep sending us across the globe. The work is the author's voice, the author's face. Our work is our passport.

Angoulême 2013 - the video

We did a little video with some images from the first part of our trip - the festival in Angoulême, the artists we knew, the town. I hope you like it.

Angoulême - part 1

Bá and I returned from our first trip to Angoulême and its Festival International de la Bande Dessinée a week ago, in the middle of Carnaval, and after 10 days in the cold french winter, we recovered by the beach for a week, feet sunk in the wet sand seen through the transparent waters of our beautiful sea. We had an incredible time in France, inspiring every day, and more and more we fall in love with the respect and love the french market has for the books and the artists.



Festivals that take place in smaller cities, or in just one determined part of a big one, are great because you can - and should - do everything by foot, and Angoulême is this beautiful little medieval city and the festival takes over the entire town. All around, you see people that love comics, artists, readers, editors and everybody else involved, and you cross them in the streets, in every restaurant, in all bars and museums and in the giant tents (called "bulles" over there) where you'll find the stands and booths of all the publishers. The prize most people are after is a very beautiful original drawing - done on their book or on a sketchbook or on a separate piece of paper - from their favorite artist. The artists take turns in the publishers booths, and a place in the line for one of the signing sessions of three hours (or more) is very disputed.
We were at the Urban Comics booth every day, signing copies of Daytripper or Casanova, and from Umbrella Academy and many of our work in english. The response from the audience was incredible, and it was great to see what the french responded more in Daytripper: Olinda, the exotic girl from the waters of Salvador, and Brás first love, was more successful than Ana, and many people asked for drawings of Dante, the dog.



Another guest Urban Comics brought to the festival was Bill Willinghan, of Fables' fame, who came with his lovely assistant Stephanie. Every night, as we gathered together for dinner, the guests and everybody from the publisher, we had an incredibly funny time with Bill, a human well of jokes, and he told very interesting stories about his time serving in the army in the seventies, which was the last time he had visited France. After two or three Vertigo panels together in San Diego (all of them passed without us getting to properly talk to each other), it was really nice to finally have an opportunity to get to know Bill a little more. Those dinners at Angoulême were always delightful, and everybody at Urban Comics loves what they do, and it was nice to feel that comics (or bande dessinée) are such a passionate world in France.
It's great to feel the good vibe when it's there, spreading, oozing from the artists, from the readers, from yours friends. It was great to see people we already knew so we could share this wonderful feeling that comics are great and there's something magical happening in comics right now. We had great talks with Cyril Pedrosa over late night drinks, and a great conversation with Mark Siegel over wine, and a wonderful lunch with Bannister in the basement of a italian restaurant. There were those we wished we could have seen more, and talked more with, like Frederik Peeters, Annabelle, Joe Keating and many others. On the last night, we had a very interesting and motivating conversation with Jessica Abel and Matt Madden about the differences of comics, of comics markets, of different artists, authors, and how that, instead of limiting, is nowadays actually liberating, even if still hard to accomplish.


Another great thing about this year's festival was the presence of so many brazilians. Call me patriotic, or sentimental (or blind, or crazy, or stupid), but comics are living a great moment in the world theses days, where new stuff by new people is finding its way in the hands of the readers all around, and when something great happens to you, you wish somebody close to you could share all these wonderfull feelings, and it was great to have other brazilian artists around, our friends, and it was a special moment that we shared in those four days of festivities, a moment we can bring back home together, hoping that, by talking about it, we can inspire others the same way the trip inspired us.

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!

Angoulême 2013, allons-y!

I can't really believe this, but we're actually going to the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême, in France. We wanted to go for so long and, finally, we're not only going, but we're doing it big style, with books published (Daytripper and Casanova), invited by the publisher (Urban Comics), running for the main prize (We're also up for the "Cultura - Public's choice award" and everyone can vote here until February 2nd). Well, we couldn't be happier.

We'll meet new people, find new comics (or BDs), speak a lot of French. After 16 years going to SDCC (San Diego Comic Con International), I believe this will give us a whole new perspective on the meaning of Comics Festival.

But like any other show, we have our schedule and commitments, and here it is so people can find us easier. We have signings (dédicaces) from friday through sunday over the Urban Comics booth (L3 at the Le Monde des Bulles area) and we'll have one spotlight panel because of Daytripper's nomination for the award (everyone on the official selection has their half hour spotlight panel). So here it comes:

Friday, February 1st:

- Dédicaces from 15h to 18h

Urban Comics stand: L3, Le Monde des Bulles

Saturday, February 2nd:

- Dédicaces from 15h to 17h15 

Urban Comics stand: L3, Le Monde des Bulles

- Panel: 18h00

moderated by Martin Zeller
Espace Selection Officielle Cultura CM17, Le Monde des Bulles (Durée : 0h30) 

Sunday, February 3rd:

- Dédicaces from 14h to 15h45

Urban Comics stand: L3, Le Monde des Bulles

Nous nous voyons la.

Olinda

daytripper-olinda-2013, a photo by 10paezinhos on Flickr.

Prepairing my take on our beloved Daytripper characters.

Ana

daytripper-ana-2013, a photo by 10paezinhos on Flickr.

Prepairing my take on our beloved Daytripper characters.

Daytripper - Jorge

Practicing drawing Jorge on my sketchbook.

Daytripper also selected for Public Choice award in Angoulême

Last November, we learned that Daytripper entered the official selection of the main award of the French market, "les Fauves d'Angoulême". He's running with 32 other albuns released in French between December of 2011 and November of 2012. There's a grand jury who will select the winner and the result will be unveiled on February 3rd, last day of the Festival.

Today we discovered that Daytripper is up for yet another award, the "public's choice award", held by Cultura, the Festival's partner bookstore, whose staff has chosen eight favourite works and the public has to vote on the one they think it's the best one. Everyone can vote.

So, if you want to vote, click here, pick your favourite book, give your name and email and vote.

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